“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us.
There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining
to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did
anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or
Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and
wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of
this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon
and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive
the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was
time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will
be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries
you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what
everyone else does.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars