Mark T. Conard

“Our successes and achievements, such as they are, do not remove the meaninglessness from our lives because our successes are
transitory and fade, our achievements are themselves impermanent and
do not last. Think of the ways in which people put countless years of effort
into their loves, friendships, and family lives, their education, jobs, and careers—and for what? All of it is a Sisyphean effort leading nowhere and ending in death. Of course, one may have some good effect on the lives of
others one cares about, but that serves only to illustrate the pointlessness of it all, for they too will die.”
― Mark T. Conard, The Philosophy of Film Noir