约翰·格林《无比美妙的痛苦》英文书摘：总有一天我们都死了

"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

谷歌翻译，仅供参考：

“总有一天我们都死了。我们所有人。将来会有这样一个时刻：没有人会记得任何人曾经存在过，或者我们的物种曾经做过任何事情。再也没有人记得亚里士多德或埃及艳后，更别说你了。我们所做的一切，所建造的一切，所写的一切，所想的一切，所发现的一切，都将被遗忘，而这一切都将一事无成。也许时间很快就要到了，也许还有几百万年，但即使我们在太阳的倒塌中幸存下来，我们也不会永远活下去。有机体经历意识之前有一段时间，之后也有一段时间。如果人类遗忘的必然性让你担心，我鼓励你忽略它。上帝知道其他人都是这么做的。”

-约翰·格林，我们明星的失误