“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”
Source: A Murder Is Announced
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Agatha Christie320
English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976Related quotes
“Tis the last rose of Summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone.”
Thomas Moore The Last Rose of Summer
The Last Rose of Summer, st. 1. <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) German historian and philosopher
Source: The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (1891–1986) Indian writer
Anatha Murthy, in his book review, describes Masti, the Sahitya Akademi Awardee as here [Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Masti, http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Masti.html?id=e6VqgWouUmUC&redir_esc=y, 2004, Katha, 978-81-87649-50-2, Review]
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“In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest—the one who crosses the finish line last.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
In Rennen der Philosophie gewinnt, wer am langsamsten laufen kann. Oder: der, der das Ziel zuletzt erreicht.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 40e
“Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: "A truck!"”
Emo Philips (1956) American comedian
E=MO² (1985)
Isaac Asimov book The Last Question
"Introduction" to The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)<!-- , p. ix -->
The Last Question (1956)
Context: "The Last Question" is my personal favorite, the one story I made sure would not be omitted from this collection. Why is it my favorite? For one thing I got the idea all at once and didn't have to fiddle with it; and I wrote it in white-heat and scarcely had to change a word. This sort of thing endears any story to any writer.
Then, too, it has had the strangest effect on my readers. Frequently someone writes to ask me if I can give them the name of a story, which they think I may have written, and tell them where to find it. They don't remember the title but when they describe the story it is invariably "The Last Question". This has reached the point where I recently received a long-distance phone call from a desperate man who began, "Dr. Asimov, there's a story I think you wrote, whose title I can't remember—" at which point I interrupted to tell him it was "The Last Question" and when I described the plot it proved to be indeed the story he was after. I left him convinced I could read minds at a distance of a thousand miles.
No other story I have written has anything like this effect on my readers — producing at once an unshakeable memory of the plot and an unshakeable forgettery of the title and even author. I think it may be that the story fills them so frighteningly full, that they can retain none of the side-issues.
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
Source: Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter II