Humanity's Wake/Quotes

"Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. The planet will be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance."

—George Carlin on "saving the planet"

"No more ashes, no more sackcloth
And an armband made of black cloth
Will some day never more adorn a sleeve.
For if the bomb that drops on you
Gets your friends and neighbours too,
There'll be nobody left behind to grieve!

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And we will all bake together when we bake.
There'll be nobody present at the wake.
With complete participation
In that grand incineration,

Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak!"—Tom Lehrer, "We Will All Go Together When We Go"