Pessimistic Passage of the Day...

[bendk]

Don't give up on your dreams.
Keep sleeping.

[miguel1984]

"It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to Hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so."

--J. Robert Oppenheimer


"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears it is true."

--James Branch Cabell

[When_MP_Attacks]

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

- Chamfort

[ChildofOldLeech]

“Man’s happiness today consists in “having fun.” Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and “taking in” commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies—all are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones—and the eternally disappointed ones.”
- Erich Fromm

[Pharpetron]

"I'll never stop singing." -- Céline Dion

[miguel1984]

"To die, to be really dead; that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

--Bram Stoker, Dracula

[ToALonelyPeace]

"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive."

-Josephine Hart

I heard this quote from a movie I haven't watched, "Damage".

[ChildofOldLeech]

"There was a mean trick played on us somewhere. God put us in the bodies of animals and tried to make us act like people."
- Erskine Caldwell, God's Little Acre

[cannibal cop]

" 2. Mur.

I am one, my liege,
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
Hath so incens’d that I am reckless what
I do to spite the world.

1. Mur.

And I another
So weary with disasters, tugg’d with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend it, or be rid on ’t."

--Macbeth, III. i.

[Poliphilo]

«It is sufficient suffering to vanish never, / trace new silhouettes of loves against that sodden esplanade of fall / count the newly dead who move among the living and cry long / animadversion in our sobs and indrawn breath.»

From 'The Bereft' by Gerrit Lansing.

I've been... inspired is not quite the right word... affected by many of the quotes in this thread. Thank you. I'd appreciate it if those quoting would name the text it's from—and the translator if it's a translation. I got into Cioran because of the quotes here, but I've found that the translations often don't 'work' quite like the original (which is a severe problem with Nietzsche, too, among others...).