Cosmicism Quotes

“Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what is beauty? Throughout all his existence man has been striving to hear the music of the spheres, and has seemed to himself once and again to catch some phrase of it, or even a hint of the whole form of it. Yet he can never be sure that he has truly heard it, nor even that there is any such perfect music at all to be heard. Inevitably so, for if it exists, it is not for him in his littleness. But one thing is certain. Man himself, at the very least, is music, a brave theme that makes music also of its vast accompaniment, its matrix of storms and stars. Man himself in his degree is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things. It is very good to have been man. And so we may go forward together with laughter in our hearts, and peace, thankful for the past, and for our own courage. For we shall make after all a fair conclusion to this brief music that is man.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men

“Existential dread to philosophy’s end in an objectively indignant and unknowable universe is principally all we shall ever expect to bear and intuit but more importantly were intended to observe in dull harmonious respite, the congenital lack of a resolving creation myth or prime reason to exist, for anything to survive and billions of years lay dormant for the incidental arrival of our brains unwillingly limited to these strictures that were already set for us by the dawning of contumacious evolution without cause but local expedience, no matter the latest surge of scientific ingenuity or imagined promise in our comprehension of the universe’s layered and aimless design by scoping the hanging stars gripped by a listless Milky Way within speculative aeons of unshored blackness, only a dubious reasoning to our being ever spun and plied from the remaining equally unknowable shunted gaze of the cosmos.”
― Jacob H. Kyle, The Tedium Lies

“Why should I care if I have a cold?
If my editor’s check is late again?
If my aunt has gone for a visit and left no food in the house?

An asteroid will strike the Earth and boil its life away.
The dying Sun will swell and grow, devouring its planets.
The Galaxy will collapse into a dimensionless Black Hole.”
― Gary Myers

“I am the Planet eremite, the giant repulsor
of the light
That falls like icy rain at night, from frigid stars
and moons a-cold.
Ye hath not seen a world like this - the blank
and oceanless abyss,
The nameless pit and precipice, the mountain
very bleak and old.
Yet ah - my silence murmureth! Oh, Inner Orbs,
ye have not heard
That stillness where there is no death, because
no life hath ever stirred!
'But here God's very name is dead!' wept Heaven's
mighty Myriarch.
Then trembling turned away and fled, for Some-
thing gibbered in the dark!”
― Stanley G. Weinbaum, The New Adam