50 Time Traveling Quotes: Go Back To the Future

Go back to your future with our time travel quotes. 

Time travel has been the subject of fantasy and science fiction for a long time. 

However, as we step into new understandings about our physical universe, we learn that what used to seem impossible is accomplishable. 

Check out our time travel quotes below to learn more. 

What is time travel?

Time travel is a topic that humans have always wondered about. 

We have a memory of our past, and we even daydream about our future; If the past and future exist in our minds, do they also exist in physical reality? 

Generally speaking, time travel is the idea of transporting oneself to another time. 

This can be the past, the future or an alternative present, or any number of combinations of conditions. 

Check out these interesting time travel facts below:

• Many physicists contend that time travel is possible. 
• Psychologists call backward time travel retrocognition.
• Some scientists believe black holes are portals to different realities. 

Is time travel real?

As a kid, I grew up watching Bill Nye the Science Guy. 

One thing I always found interesting was the way he questioned how time happens. 

A flea, fish, raccoon, tree, and human all perceive time differently, so it seems natural that time occurs differently on other planets. 

I have always been interested in Mars. 

Bill Nye once asked, “When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? 

He goes on to say, “It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?”

Bill Nye raises some excellent questions. 

Why would time manifest elsewhere the same way it does for us here?

If time travel exists, perhaps it also manifests differently from how we imagine it. 

Is time travel different from how we imagine it?

Time travel is different from what we think it is. 

Some argue that there is no time travel in the sci-fi sense. 

They say that when time traveling, what you are doing is shifting to a parallel reality to the one that seems remarkably similar to the one from your past. 

The next logical question would be, is there a machine to help us achieve this?

Well, yes and no. 

Theoretically, a person could make a device that creates an energy bubble that isolates you from any particular reality so you can impose upon it the frequency of the parallel reality you wish to experience. 

Again, theoretically, when you impose the frequency of the particular reality you wish to access and remove the bubble, you wind up in that reality because you have shifted yourself to the parallel you desired. 

Mindblowing, right?

To learn more, check out our time travel quotes below!

Short time travel quotes about turning back the clock 

We would all love to do certain parts of our lives over; these quotes celebrate that idea. 

1. “I’d love to time travel.” — Sam Heughan

2. “Time travel is such a magic concept.” — Matt Smith

3. “I think the idea of time travel is very seductive.” — Dana Reeve

4. “The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.” — Margaret Peterson Haddix

5. “Do not look back with regret. Past will never come back again.” — Henry Longfellow

6. “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” — Bonnie Prudden

7. “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”  — Stephen Hawking

8. “We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

9. “The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.” — Brian Greene

10. “I want to go back in time. Not to change anything, but to feel something again.” — Mercer

The best time travel quotes about making fantasy reality

Is time travel worthwhile? 

Many people argue that living in the past and revisiting it is not beneficial and keeps us from living in the present. 

11. “Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.” — Stephen Hawking

12. “Scientific people know very well that Time is only a kind of Space.” — H.G Wells, The Time Machine

13. “You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.” — Snoop Dogg

14. “I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.” — Tate Taylor

15. “Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it’s also very expensive thing to do.” — Don Hertzfeldt

16. “Time travel is a fantasy we all have. The Back to the Future series really exploits that wish.” — Christopher Lloyd

17. “That’s the thing about time travel you’re always moving forward, even when you go back.” — James A. Owen

18. “In a sense, we all are time travelers! We are surviving each and every active time-point in this timeline.” — Aldrin Mathew

19. “The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.” — Matt Lucas

20. “When the time travel is eventually doable technologically, yesterday was dead a man who is going to be born tomorrow.” — Toba Beta

The top time travel quotes about time machines and making old memories

We live in a multidimensional reality, so time travel seems possible. 

However, many scientists argue against it. 

21. “Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.” — Douglas Adams

22. “Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.” — Stephen Hawking

23. “I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.” — David Mackay

24. “One may never get to know how fast the time travels till one gets in that position to race against time.” — Neel Preet

25. “I’ve always been a big fan of time travel, and I’m very into the notion that someday we’ll be able to do it. Beam me up!” — Scott Bakula

26. “Time travel is a philosophical concept, not a scientific one. It is, in fact, as has been pointed out, scientific nonsense.” — Alexie Panshin, ‘The Mirror of Infinity,’ 1970

27. “Time travel is usually only possible in one direction: plodding ever-forward at the pace of a ticking second hand on a clock.” — Mary Beth Griggs

28. “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” — Albert Einstein

29. “Once the notion of time travel starts to come naturally to the human mind, it is supremely easy to assimilate it into our mode of thinking.” — Maria Konnikova

30. “There’s a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time, I’ve been obsessed with the thought of time travel with my camera.” — Shawn Crahan

Famous time travel quotes about crossing paths with kindred spirits

When you time travel, are you going to a different timeline or contacting a parallel reality version of yourself? 

“If time travel were possible, you still wouldn’t be able to change the past; it’s already 31. happened!” — Sean M. Carroll

32. “Life is a learning experience. All you can do is learn from your mistakes, but you can’t go back in time.” — Amy Dumas

33. “Time travel is complicated, or so we think, since we have not yet managed to actually figure out how to do it.” — Serena Yates

34. “Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labeled a ‘crank.’” — Stephen Hawking

35. “Time travel is a philosophical concept, not a scientific one. It is, in fact, as has been pointed out, scientific nonsense.” — Alexie Panshin

36. “My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes, and in my dreams, it travels to the future.” — Munia Khan

37. “Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.” — Lisa Randall

38. “Don’t time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don’t bookmark pages you’ve already read.” — James Altucher

39. “Who hasn’t dreamed of being a superhero? I don’t know what my superhero name would be, but my power? I would have to say time travel.” — Brook Lopez

40. “Time and space heal themselves up around them, and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.” — Douglas Adams

Time travel quotes and sayings about moving through different timelines

If you had the opportunity to time travel, where would you go? 

41. “In a sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this timeline.” — Aldrin Mathew, Time Travel Experiences

42. “Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect – but maybe the universe doesn’t insist on cause and effect.” — Edward M. Lerner

43. “Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime, time will do the traveling for us.” — Maria Konnikova

44. “I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?” — Rainbow Rowell

45. “There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.” — H.G Wells, The Time Machine

46. “If you’re going to write time travel stories, you have to sort of figure out how does time travel work in this particular universe that I’m dealing with.” — Diana Gabaldon

47. “I think time travel is really tricky. But if there’s a logic and a complete and well-thought-through paradigm for it, I think it can be really interesting.” — Daniel Dae Kim

48. “If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you’d forgotten about, you’d weep, looking at that day.” — Alexander Payne

49. “If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.” — Neal Asher

50. “Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp spacetime so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.” — Stephen Hawking

Here is a time travel scenario to consider:

Let’s say you take a picture of yourself at ten years old, and you develop it and put it on a table. 

Now you grow up, take a picture of yourself at thirty, develop it, and put it on the same table. 

At thirty, you also invent your time machine. 

You go back in time in time to visit the version of yourself, which is theoretically the ten-year-old version of you.

At thirty, you take a picture with your ten-year-old self and put it on the table. 

Now the table has three pictures. 

All three pictures exist simultaneously. 

Remember, as stated earlier, time travel is more about shifting to a parallel reality that seems remarkably similar to the one from your past.

Similarly, all three realities exist simultaneously, which means you didn’t change the first picture. 

You could not have because you weren’t there then. 

What you have done at thirty in your time machine is go into the reality of another ten-year-old. 

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