We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
The Meaning of This Quote
This quote is saying that we are all going to die, and this should be enough to make us care for each other, however it does not. Instead, we are often distracted by small and unimportant things, which leads to nothing good.