While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. Author: Alan Lightman Copy Quote More from Alan Lightman “Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over ti…” “In fact, this is a world without future. In this world, time is a line that ter…” “The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of p…” “I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly f…”