Daniel C. Bush

“All great conversions are born from the sudden revelation of life's meaninglessness. Nothing could be more moving or more impressive than this sudden apprehension of the void of existence.”
― Emil M. Cioran, Tears and Saints

“Tu es entré dans le monde étrange des compositions et des décompositions chimiques : ta vie et ta mort terrestres, agrégations et désagrégations continuelles, jusqu'au jour où il ne restera plus la moindre trace, le moindre souvenir de cette chose immonde qui sera ton cadavre.
Aussi je ne sais quel fou trouvait-il avec raison à cette atmosphère terrestre une désagréable odeur de cimetière, odeur inquiétante, disait-il, et que ne pouvait dissimuler le bizarre et angélique parfum des fleurs.”
― Henri Cazalis, Le Livre du Néant: Pensées Douloureuses ou Bouffonnes; Le Ciel d'Orient; Remembrance; L'Illusion (Classic Reprint)

“Faith in technology has absolutely nothing to do with reason or wisdom: it is religion — an insensible, uncritical, unquestionable religion. Technology is the foundation of the most anti-intellectual and religious culture Western civilisation, or indeed the world, has ever known. The two religions at Sääksmäki, however, offer an interesting contrast: the Church nowadays, whatever its faults, is gentle, understanding and preserving; the religion of technology, on the other hand, is aggressive and destructive.”
― Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

“Extinction, while sad and scary, doesn't bother me as much as does the suffering of the individuals prior to being wiped out.”
― Henriette Mantel, No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood