Time Travel Quotes

“Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.”
― Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt

“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments? Perhaps, in his dreams, he had traveled back in time, or even drifted into another dimension of space-time and inhabited the body, experiences, and nostalgia of another. To even envisage so allowed the trauma of those lost moments, though not his own, to draw from him a certain envy for the entity in whose memories he had basked vicariously. . .Perhaps, nostalgia was a microorganism. . .the bacterium that infected. . . Yes. . .maybe he was sick.”
― Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable

“Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King , where a society of ants declares, 'Everything not forbidden is compulsory.' In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. Thus, unless there is a law forbidding it, it will eventually occur.)”
― Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“I know." He leaned back, looking into her eyes. "But I'm not going anywhere, Jenny. I'll fight to stay with you.”
― Amanda Gray, Endless

“BLUE, THE colour of the sky, of the ocean, of certain stars and planets and the hue of the bluest eyes you have ever seen.”
― Kev Heritage, Blue Into The Rip

“People say, 'Time heals all wounds.' That may be true, but relocating to an alternate reality can sure help too." -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1941”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“I don’t want to look. I’ve got to look.” Vance... "Vital Perception”
― D. L. Given

“I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler... complicated, that is.”
― M.K. Alexander

“sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine...”
― Alina Radoi

“An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men.”
― Karen Azinger, The Assassin's Tear

“Like I’ve told you before, Beverly, I don’t care where we live as long as we’re together.” Vance... "The Elder Effect”
― D. L. Given

“Raw, freezing magic detonated from her outstretched hand with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps.”
― Sam Whitehouse, The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time

“The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...”
― S.R. Ford, Mimgardr

“The past is obdurate.
― Stephen King, 11/22/63”
― Kit Cole, Justice for all Time

“Ach, lass. Nae matter what happens, I will find you. Even if I must travel through time to a thousand different places, I promise you, I will find you.”
― Dawn Marie Hamilton, Just Beyond the Garden Gate

“I’ve never liked urban myths. I’ve never liked pretending to believe in them; never understood why everyone else doesn’t see straight through them. Why is it they’ve always happened to a friend of a friend - someone you’ve never met? Why does everyone smile and nod and pull the right faces, when they must know they’re not true? Pointless. A waste of breath.
So I sneered at the myths about Scaderstone Pit. It was just an old quarry – nothing more. I never believed in the rumours of discarded dynamite. It had decayed, they said. It exploded at the slightest touch, had even blown someone’s hand off. I shrugged off the talk of the toxic waste. It was dumped in the dead of night, they said. The canisters rusting away, leaking deadly poisons that could blind you, burn your lungs. I laughed at the ghost stories. You could hear the moans, they said, of quarrymen buried alive and never found. You could see their nightwalking souls, searching for their poor crushed bodies.
I didn’t believe any of it – not one word. Now, after everything that’s happened, I wonder whether I should’ve listened to those stories. Maybe then, these things would’ve happened to someone else, and I could’ve smiled and said they were impossible.
But this is not an urban myth. And it did not happen to someone else, but to me. I’ve set it down as best I can remember. Whether you believe it or not, is up to you.”
― Mikey Campling, Trespass

“We’re going to make a tunnel for that ship. We’re going to make sure that little lady has every chance in the world to survive. If I get any trouble out of any of ya…” he paused. “I’ll handle it myself, do you understand?” Johan… “Vital Perception”
― D. L. Given

“We are all time travelers, we just don't know it yet.The only problem is that we only have a one way ticket, destination: FUTURE.”
― Alina Radoi

“The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.”
― Kev Heritage, Blue Into The Rip

“Intense sunlight rained down on a half-submerged city. Waves crashed between buildings that stood like waterlogged tombstones. Skyscrapers of smashed glass and twisted rusting metal jutted from the churning swell as islands of broken dreams. A familiar tower with a familiar clock face…Big Ben. London stared back at Blue. What was left of it. A sea-drowned cemetery for a time and a place long dead.”
― Kev Heritage, Blue Into The Rip

“Are you okay, Maggie?” Logan asked, rousing me out of my mind-numbing speculations.
Heaving a big sigh, I turned to him and said, “I guess so.”
“Are you still worried about visiting your mother?” he asked softly.
Nodding, I said, “A little. I’m just so confused about this whole time-space-brain twister thing. And I’m afraid I might say the wrong thing and mess everything up.” I shook my head, trying to make sense of my thoughts. “I mean - what if my younger self should call my mother while I’m there visiting her? Is there really another version of me? Or by coming here from the future, did the younger me cease to exist?”
― Sharon Ricklin Jones, River of Time

“Taking Morgana with it, the lightning arced back through the clouds; leaving behind nothing but the last echoing remains of her scream.”
― Sam Whitehouse, The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time

“As he hurtled through the air Simon saw the boiling emerald fire hit his protective spell and explode into sickly green sparks, inches from where Falamir was still crouched, oblivious to the chaos unfolding around him.”
― Sam Whitehouse, The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time

“All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward.”
― Karen Azinger, The Assassin's Tear

“First of all, time travel per se does not exist. ‘Travel’ implies that you choose both your destination and when you come back. It’s more a ‘time shot,’ a ‘time through.’ But it’s definitely not time travel.”
― Francis Barel, Saving Kennedy

“In 1945, Oppenheimer posited that what happened during the Trinity Test was due to ‘Time Tunnels.’ A 50-year ‘time tunnel.”

“So, in 1945, you could send a soldier 50 years back?”

“Exactly. Well, except for the fact that at the time we didn’t know if we ever could deliberately send something or someone, but we were already sure it was a one-way trip.”
― Francis Barel, Saving Kennedy

“I suppose that someday, suddenly, I will be transferred to another age, for example the chivalric or the bronze. The hope is, of course, that I arrive in period dress but not resemble a contemporary luminary, for I wish to simply onlook. But, more probably, thanks to chronologically garbled garb, or my mistakable face—which will lead to expectations of competence—I will have to explain my occurrence. That explained, I will have to explain my age, The Present, also known as "The Future" in the past. This is why I am studying our great inventions and advances: to be ready for questions.”
― Amy Leach, Things That Are

“Time isn’t a line or a circle or any 2-D object, Aisling had written. It’s more like you’re standing inside of a sphere of constantly flowing energy. When you find that center, you can reach out and touch any part of your life.”
― Erica Cameron, Doorways to Extra Time

“It may interest for you to know that most Canadians in 2036 are some of the most efficient, ruthless and dangerous people I know. God help Quebec.”
― John Titor Foundation, John Titor, A Time Traveler's Tale