Sir Reginald Hargreeves: A spatial jump is trivial when compared with the unknowns of time travel. One is like sliding along the ice, the other is akin to descending blindly into the depths of the freezing water and reappearing as an acorn.
Number Five: I don't get it.
Sir Reginald Hargreeves: Hence the reason you're not ready.
—The Umbrella Academy (2019), "Run Boy Run"
Do you really think you can play games with time itself? Do you think you can change things around to suit you and not make a mess of it? Are you so naive, Andalite, that you can't understand that time is a trillion, trillion, trillion strands, all woven and interwoven? That if you twist and break one strand it may have unforeseen effects in a thousand other places and times?
—The Ellimist, Animorphs - The Andalite Chronicles
Cronos scrambled my temporal proteins. Cut me loose on the timeline. Now I can't stay in any one time zone more than a few minutes. I get old, I get young. I flip back and forth, get stretched between now and then and maybe. I tell you, buddy, I don't know whether I'm coming or going. Worse than that, I evolve. Or devolve. The proteins sweat out, so I'm surrounded by temporal fallout. Don't get too close, buddy. You'll end up wearing skins and banging sticks together.
—Jimmy, String City, by Graham Edwards
Mordo: Temporal manipulations can create branches in time, unstable dimensional openings, spatial paradoxes! Time loops! You wanna get stuck reliving the same moment over and over forever - or never having existed at all?
Dr Strange: ...they really should put the warnings before the spell...
Dr Strange: ...they really should put the warnings before the spell...
Tony Stark: Mess with time, it tends to mess back.
Einstein: Time...
Crichton: Flies.
Einstein: Time...
Crichton: Bandits.
Einstein: Time...
Crichton: Wounds all heals.
Einstein: Time...
Crichton: Rosemary and.
Einstein: Time.
Crichton: ...Time ends.
Calvin: Ok, Hobbes, our time machine is all set. Put on your goggles and we'll be off to the future!
Hobbes: Why do we have to wear goggles?
Calvin: Geez, do you think travelling years into the future is like driving down the street?! We've got to contend with vortexes and light speeds! Anything could go wrong! Of course we have to wear goggles!
Hobbes: Gosh, I think my goggles are in the bedroom. If I'm not back in a couple minutes, you can go without me.
Hobbes: Why do we have to wear goggles?
Calvin: Geez, do you think travelling years into the future is like driving down the street?! We've got to contend with vortexes and light speeds! Anything could go wrong! Of course we have to wear goggles!
Hobbes: Gosh, I think my goggles are in the bedroom. If I'm not back in a couple minutes, you can go without me.
It is not my goal to alarm, but I find this situation disturbing. We now have a rebellious wizard, young and inexperienced, wandering the world, dabbling in powerful magics she does not understand. Those wiser than you or I determined long ago that certain schools of magic were too dangerous and forbade their practice. It is those magics that this wizard seems determined to explore – magics centered on manipulating the primal forces from which reality is constructed. Imagine, a headstrong nineteen-year-old youth, able to warp time itself to her will! The thought is truly terrifying. It is my honest hope that this self-styled wizard chooses never to return to Caldeum.
— Abd al-Hazir, Diablo 3
