Notes from the End of Everything Quotes

“Every good book I’ve read. Every good movie I’ve watched. Every good piece of comedy. Every beautiful art piece. All threw me into the conversations I needed to have but could never have with anyone directly.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“We are just as wise as the gods we created and just as clueless as the insects we smack down from our walls. We are just as insignificant as the dirt we walk on and just as marvelous as the cosmic nebulas that float above us. We are part of the whole of nature, cluelessly embedded in everything.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“We seem to so desire certainty. An immortality. A utopic end to conflict, suffering, and misunderstanding. And yet, in the final elimination of all darkness exists light with no contrast. And where there is no contrast of light, there is no perception of light at all.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“What we think we want is rarely what we do. If we ever got what we did, we would no longer have anything. What we really want is to want. To have something to ceaselessly chase and move towards. To feel the motion and synchronicity with the universe’s unending forward movement.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“It would seem as though the bulk of life is spent trying to avoid life. We hide our lives from each other. From ourselves. We avoid facing the bleakness and sadness.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“If one enjoys or values the time they wasted, did they really waste it?”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“At bottom, I’m the only person who has ever decided if I wasted a day or not.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“Time is the most valuable thing. That’s what people say. This seems undisputable on the surface, I suppose; but fundamentally, I don’t know if time is inherently any more valuable than anything else. With no one to spend it, time means nothing.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“I think the appeal of getting drunk is that it’s like being dead. And we all want to be dead without having to die.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“The concept of family is strange, really; to have a lifelong relationship with people you don’t really know and have nothing in common with other than arbitrary bloodlines. It’s like friends of friends, but you didn’t even choose the first friends. I know it’s not like that for everyone. But it’s like that for me.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“For some reason, everyone has this hunch that everyone is fucked, and yet, very few of us can even say so.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“I wonder now how many days I wasted thinking I wasted days? How many days I made bad for no reason other than thinking they were bad, overlooking how good I could have made them by simply recognizing how good they already were?”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“And so we all meander through our absurd lives, filling our time with endeavors, pursuits, and activities, not because we know that it’s what we want to do, nor what we should do, but because we have time and it must be spent.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“Language and thought are but absurd abstractions of an already absurd and abstract reality.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“Perhaps a world where honest expression is more focal. More central. Less avoided by friends and families. Less pervaded by cheap, cash grab Hollywood projects. Less watered down and commodified by businesses that relentlessly pander to market themselves into scale. Could such a world exist? Who knows?”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“In terms of my character”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“A lizard doesn’t know the meaning of life because it doesn’t have the capacity to care. Some distant future being that operates from some super-intelligence might know the meaning of life”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“To say something that no one else has ever quite said. To forge through the darkness with a light of one’s own design. To mine into the senses and the nature of one’s self”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“The value of one’s time should not be predicated on anyone else’s preference for how it should be spent, as if anyone truly knew. ”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“How many days I made bad for no reason other than thinking they were bad, overlooking how good I could have made them by simply recognizing how good they already were?”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“I’m the only person who has ever decided if I wasted a day or not.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“To properly spend one’s time, one needs enough time to evaluate time properly. To try as many things, go through as many different processes, experience different lifestyles, visit different places, live with different people, and so on. But there is not even close to enough time to do a fraction of any of this. And so we all meander through our absurd lives, filling our time with endeavors, pursuits, and activities, not because we know that it’s what we want to do, nor what we should do, but because we have time and it must be spent.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“Being born renders two inevitable experiences: living and dying. And both are terrifying.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“you would think that self-hatred would make you want to avoid focusing on yourself, but self-hatred is just another version of self-interest. It makes you incapable of properly caring or being aware of anyone else other than yourself. When you’re miserable, you convince yourself that mostly everything you do is excusable, or at least understandable. In your mind, you’re the victim. But in reality, you’re the causer and spreader of more misery.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“If there’s any house of God, it is not the churches but the skulls of every person who can conceive of him.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“The concept of family is strange, really; to have a lifelong relationship with people you don’t really know and have nothing in common with other than arbitrary bloodlines. It’s like friends of friends, but you didn’t even choose the first friends.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“At a certain point, the reason for productivity and activity is merely to facilitate a sense of meaning and motion in life, which, in turn, facilitates the ability to say the day was not wasted.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“When you’re young, you don’t realize how precious time is. When you’re old, you know how precious it is, but don’t know how to enjoy it the same anymore.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“someone dying earlier than expected could be just as sad as someone dying as expected but living an arduous, horrible life.”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything

“The amount of randomness at play at every moment in the universe is the same amount of randomness at play inside the skulls of each and every person. And through this randomness - this chaos - the self is born”
― Robert Pantano, Notes from the End of Everything