picaresque.
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

— Jean-Paul Sartre
"Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today."

— Lawrence M. Krauss
"Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

— Douglas Adams
"Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s?"

— Nietzsche

» Trouble in Paradise

‘And yet, and yet … of course I understand why so many people want to believe in heaven, even now. It is a way—however futilely—of trying to escape the awful emptiness of death. As Phillip Larkin put it: “Not to be here,/ Not to be anywhere,/ And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.”’