We’re primordial dust. And that’s funny.
“A little wisp of soul carrying a corpse.”
~Epictetus
“Strange, isn’t it? To have dedicated one’s life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one’s life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one’s labors utterly forgotten?”
~George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo (Book)
“The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn’t even get to sit up and look around. I got so much, and most mud got so little. Thank you for the honor! Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep. What memories for mud to have! What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met! I loved everything I saw!”
~Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (Book)
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
~Confucius
“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”
~Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead (Book)
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”
~Steven Weinberg
“Rawlins asked him in his bad Spanish if there was a heaven for horses but he shook his head and said that a horse had no need of heaven.”
~Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (Book)
“For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on.”
~Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (Book)
