O da Joana

“Ricordo bene il suo sguardo.
Attraversa ancora la mia anima
Come una scia di fuoco nella notte.
Ricordo bene il suo sguardo. Il resto…
Sì, il resto è solo una parvenza di vita.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“If time and the passage of events are the same, then time moves barely at all. If time and events are not the same, then it is only people who barely move. If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

“Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

“Will these millions of children, for generations upon future generations, know that some of their atoms cycled through this woman? [...] Will they feel what she felt in her life, will their memories have flickering strokes of her memories, will they recall that moment long ago when she stood by the window, guilt ridden and confused, and watched as the tadr bird circled the cistern? No, it is not possible. [...] But I will let them have their own brief glimpse of the Void, just at that moment they pass from living to dead, from animate to inanimate, from consciousness to that which has no consciousness. For a moment, they will understand infinity.”
― Alan Lightman, Mr g