# Quote — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

> We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface.

- Author: [H.G. Wells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells.md)
- Book: [The Time Machine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-time-machine.md)
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- Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md), [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-time-machine/we-are-always

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> Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!

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Topics: [mistakes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mistakes.md)

> Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-time-machine/well-i-do-not.md)

Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md)

> Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine... That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-time-machine/long-ago-i-had.md)

Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md)