“There
will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will
come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember
that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.
There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let
alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought
and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been
for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is
millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of
our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before
organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time
after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I
encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone
else does.”
.THE FAULT IN OUR
STARS.