Tears In Rain
"I've...seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain. Time to die."
Rutger Hauer's soliloquy at the end of Ridley Scott's 1982 film, Bladerunner. He modified it from the original script. It has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue
To me it epitomizes the temporality of each of our existence, similar to Arthur Miller's comment about Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman: "I understand his longing for immortality … Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day, but he wishes he were writing in stone." Paraphrased: Immortality is like writing your name on a cake of ice on a hot summer's day.
