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Pointlessness of Life through 1995

Shakespeare Nihilism

quoteTomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
speakerWilliam Shakespeare
sourceThe Tragedy of Macbeth 1606, Act V, Scene V