“Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.”
Marvin nodded. “Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, “this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.”
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 24 (p. 110)
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Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Grief and mad wrath devoured his soul, and hope, heaviest of mortal cares when long deferred.”
Exedere animum dolor iraque demens
et, qua non gravior mortalibus addita curis,
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“These feeble and fastidious times.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
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Sam Tanenhaus (1955) American writer
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