Everyone wants to live forever, but no one would be able to endure it for that long.
The human mind isn't made to not eventually find numbing mundanity in 1000's of years of experiences. Much less billions of them. Only two real options in that timescale: Toying with the idea to finally pass like you so desperately didn't want to eons ago, or go mad from the eventual banality of it all.
As one book I read put it: The important question isn't what you get a man that has it all? He desires for nothing. It's what do you show a man that's seen it all, infinite times. He desires for that even less. Nothingness is the only experience he hasn't lived, and he yearns for it.
(Edited as I butcher it less, I think)
- Democracy Dies in Dumbness.
- Watching people my age grow from cynical youth who distrusts and dismisses the older generation, into cynical old people who distrusts and dismisses younger generations.
