“Modern disillusion is unlikely to last forever, and nothing rings so hollow as the angst of yesterday.”

“The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.”

“Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.”

“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned”

“Be the day never so long,
Evermore at last they ring to evensong.”

“The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!”

“Nothing lasts forever, including love. And therefore it must be renewed from time to time in order to become firm and stronger, so as not to become bland”

“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”

“Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused.
- Hephaestus”

“Beneath all this gaiety and baroque complexity lay the simple and so carefully denied: beyond the thin metal surrounding us was the endless humorless void. Hollow rings the laughter of orphans in the night.”