Steve Smith

“To properly spend one’s time, one needs enough time to evaluate time properly. To try as many things, go through as many different processes, experience different lifestyles, visit different places, live with different people, and so on. But there is not even close to enough time to do a fraction of any of this. And so we all meander through our absurd lives, filling our time with endeavors, pursuits, and activities, not because we know that it’s what we want to do, nor what we should do, but because we have time and it must be spent.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”
― Hugh Howey, Dust

“Language and thought are but absurd abstractions of an already absurd and abstract reality.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“Time is the most valuable thing. That’s what people say. This seems undisputable on the surface, I suppose; but fundamentally, I don’t know if time is inherently any more valuable than anything else. With no one to spend it, time means nothing.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything