While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. Auteur: Alan Lightman Copy Quote More from Alan Lightman “If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a pers…” “But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? C…” “Will these millions of children, for generations upon future generations, know …” “Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequen…”