Cosmic Pessimism Quotes

“I would like to say that the following days were filled with awe and excitement, with marvels and wonders, astonishing discoveries. If they were, the marvels went unrecognized.
Mysteries we did find, and they were many. But I learned that something can be too mysterious, too alien - so mysterious or alien as to approach being meaningless:
-two connected rooms crisscrossed by metal rods; we had to laboriously climb through them each time we went in or out of the ship until we found a curving passage that bypassed them. We couldn't even guess at the purpose or function of the rooms or the rods.”
― Richard Paul Russo, Ship of Fools

“Conscious beings appear, experience, desire, suffer, attach themselves to meaning, reproduce, and eventually disappear. And then the process continues without them.”
― Dain sica, The Failed Experiment: An Essay on Consciousness, Determinism, Suffering, and the Human Condition