menecio

“Where you remain with a dying person, accompanying them as far as you can go, ultimately finding yourself standing still while they’ve kept moving. Moving until that place where they stop, arriving at that terrible stillness that goes on way longer than any life someone might have led. You continue leading your life while they follow theirs into the great beyond. Being and nothingness. You love them until they can’t feel loved anymore, then you keep on loving them as if they were still there—as if there’s been a reprieve at the last moment and fate has reversed itself. It all turned out to be a bad dream that you both had and now get to wake from.”
― Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic

“It is a matter of common experience that disorder will tend to increase if things are left to themselves... However, one can create order out of disorder[.]”
― Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

“The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there–but why is the past so different from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

“It seems to me much better and less confusing if you admit in print that you were wrong.”
― Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe