“A hundred years die in a moment, just as a moment dies in a moment.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Mueren cien años en un instante, lo mismo que un instante en un instante.
Voces (1943)
Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.
Voces (1943)
“A hundred years die in a moment, just as a moment dies in a moment.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Mueren cien años en un instante, lo mismo que un instante en un instante.
Voces (1943)
Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author
God Is An Iron (1977)
Context: "It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand? That lemming drive you're talking about is there — but there's another kind of drive, another kind of force that's working against it. Or else there wouldn't still be any people and there wouldn't be the words to have this conversation and—" She paused, looked down at herself. "And I wouldn't be here to say them."
George Gamow (1904–1968) Russian-American physicist and science writer
Source: The Creation of the Universe (1952), p. 139
Jason Hickel (1982) author
Capitalism: A Creation Story, p. 39
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021)
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Context: The amount of organic matter that could have been produced in the first few hundred million years of Earth history was sufficient to have produced in the present ocean a several-percent solution of organic matter. This is just about the dilution of Knorr's chicken soup, and not that different from the composition either. And chicken soup is widely known to be good for life.
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 51
Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.”
Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad
Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad