Interesting quote

[Ambivalent1]

"Well, so I'm going to die.' Sooner than other people will, obviously. But everybody knows life isn't worth living. Deep down I knew perfectly well that it doesn't much matter whether you die at thirty or at seventy, since in either case other men and women will naturally go on living - and for thousands of years. In fact, nothing could be clearer. Whether it was now or twenty years from now, I would still be the one dying. At that point, what would disturb my train of thought was the terrifying leap I would feel my heart take at the idea of having twenty more years of life ahead of me. But I simply had to stifle it by imagining what I'd be thinking in twenty years when it would all come down to the same thing anyway. Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter."

The stranger

The context is that the main character is awaiting to hear if his appeal has been approved. He's on death row.

 

[Rhymester]

Ah, Albert Camus, the father of absurdism. He was an intellectual.

 

[Ambivalent1]

Ah, Albert Camus, the father of absurdism. He was an intellectual.

I have it on audiobook and play it often.

 

[Rhymester]

I have it on audiobook and play it often.

Do you like any other philosophers? Emil Cioran was a great one.

 

[Ambivalent1]

Do you like any other philosophers? Emil Cioran was a great one.

I wish I could grasp most philosophical works. I can only understand when it's told in modern terms. Nietzsche is unreadable like many others before him. Schopenhauer is easier.