“We have already exited the state of environmental conditions that allowed the human animal to evolve in the first place, in an unsure and unplanned bet on just what that animal can endure.”— David Wallace-Wells, amazon.com
“That woman was the only reason on earth for me to tolerate human life!”— Warren Ellis, Dracula, Graham McTavish, imdb.com
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”— Marcus Tullius Cicero, loebclassics.com
“Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.”— Frederick Sanger, nobelprize.org
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”— Nick Hughes, aeon.co
“The simple fact about progress is that the future of mankind has nothing to offer the individual life, except death.”— Hannah Arendt, nybooks.com
“Whenever you feel hopeless, all you need to do is go outside and realize that you have been molded into human form for some reason.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com