Vonnegut, Kurt (The Sirens of Titan)

In the year Ten Million, according to Koradubian, there would be a tremendous house-cleaning. All records relating to the period between the death of Christ and the year One Million A.D. would be hauled to the dumps and burned. This would be done, said Koradubian, because museums and archives would be crowding the living right off the earth.

The million-year period to which the burned junk related would be summed up in history books in one sentence, according to Koradubian: Following the death of Jesus Christ, there was a period of readjustment that lasted for approximately one million years.

Quotes that divide humanity into two groups

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
-Horace Walpole, English author (1717 - 1797)

The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and those who are going to read them.
-The Sunday Times

There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.

There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count and those who can't.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

Kierkegaard, Soren

Aren't people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have, but demand those they don't have; they have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
- Either/Or

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.
- Journals

McCall Smith, Alexander (Love Over Scotland)

Life is not about thoughts of loss and separation; it is about hot water systems and remembering to put out the rubbish, and making siccar in all the other little ways in which we must make siccar.


Siccar
Scottish adjective: sure; free from doubt or uncertainty
[Old English sicor, via Germanic < Latin securus (secure)]

Potok, Chaim (The Chosen)

Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value there is to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.... A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.