Emma Burris

“He feels that God is necessary and that he must exist. But he knows that he does not and cannot exist.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Another time Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, 'I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he
only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to
cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will
exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can
look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all
the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an
illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a
string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad
condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other
moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what
the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“If all masses subject to attraction were to disappear, the law of attraction would not be destroyed but would simply remain without any possible application...Even if the mind were not, its laws would be!”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus