Quote: Chapter XV of “Fates Worse Than Death” by Kurt Vonnegut
Scientists, for all their creativity, will never discover a method for making people deader than dead. So if some of you are worried about being hydrogen-bombed, you are merely fearing death. There is nothing new in that. If there weren’t any hydrogen bombs, death will still be after you. And what is death but an absence of life? That is all it can ever be.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death, 1991
Video: Sir Ian McKellan reads “Make your soul grow” by Kurt Vonnegut
Quote: Wendell Berry from A World Lost
She looked upon the human condition, I think, as not satisfactory – as unacceptable, notwithstanding that we are in it whether we accept it or not.
From A World Lost by Wendell Berry
Photograph by Tomas Castelazo (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons