# Quote — Clifford D. Simak, Time and Again

> They are worse than the disinherited. They are not the has-beens, they are the never-weres.

- Author: [Clifford D. Simak](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak.md)
- Book: [Time and Again](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/time-and-again.md)
- Page: 14
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak#Time_and_Again_(1951)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/time-and-again/they-are-worse

## More from this book

> Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.

p. 204 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/time-and-again/before-man-goes.md)

> Memory and dust, he thought, link us to the past.

p. 224 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/time-and-again/memory-and-dust.md)

> “It wouldn’t be the truth,” said Sutton.
>
> “That,” said Trevor, “doesn’t have a thing to do with it.”

p. 220 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/time-and-again/it-wouldnt-be-the.md)