While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. Author: Alan Lightman Copy Quote More from Alan Lightman “Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.” “Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so p…” “In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit…” “Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In …”