Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom

All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere. —Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations