总会有一天,我们所有人都死了,我们所有人

“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

“总会有一天,我们所有人都死了,我们所有人。总会有一天,人类将不复存在,不再记住人类曾经存在过,也不再记住人类曾经做过什么。没有人会记得亚里士多德或克利奥帕特拉,更不用说你了。我们所做的一切,所建立的一切,所写的一切,所思考的一切,以及所发现的一切都将被遗忘;所有这一切都将化为乌有。也许那个时刻很快就会到来,也许还有亿万年之遥,但即使我们能逃过太阳坍塌幸存下来,我们也不会永远存活下来。有机体产生最初的意识之前,时间就已经存在;意识消亡之后,时间依然长存。人类注定必然被遗忘,如果这让你忧虑,我鼓励你把它置之脑后,不要理会。其实,每个人都是这么做的。”
——约翰·格林《星运里的错》(The Fault in Our Stars)

约翰·格林(John Green 1977 – 至今), 美国作家和YouTube内容创作者。他的处女作《寻找阿拉斯加》获得了2006年的普利兹奖。他的第四本个人小说《星河中的错》在2012年1月登上了《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的榜首。2014年,格林入选《时代》杂志全球100位最具影响力人物。另一部根据格林小说改编的电影《纸镇》于2015年7月24日上映。除了是一名小说家,格林还因其在YouTube上的冒险活动而闻名。

Comments

No comments yet. Why don’t you start the discussion?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *