Brief is this existence, as a fleeting visit in a strange house, The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness - Albert Einstein

Quote

“Brief is this existence, as a fleeting visit in a strange house, The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.”

Author

Albert Einstein

Reference

Einstein - His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson

But he knew that the aneurysm on his abdominal aorta should soon prove fatal, and he began to display a peaceful sense of his own mortality. When he stood at the graveside and eulogized the physicist Rudolf Ladenberg, who had been his colleague in Berlin and then Princeton, the words seemed to be ones he felt personally.