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"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile, but that it is indifferent. If we can come to terms with this indifference, then our exi
by david927 12y ago
"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile, but that it is indifferent. If we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.", Stanley Kubrick
- alecco 12y ago"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", Albert Camus, The Stranger
- S4M 12y agoNice quote! That's what the hero of The Stranger, thinks just before being executed.
- bernardlunn 12y agoWow, read that book when I was young and loved it, will have to read it again, sent chills down my spine.
- golemotron 12y ago"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her." - Kurt Vonnegut (about his sister's death from cancer)