Pessimistic Passage of the Day...

[marioneta]

If the act of procreation were neither the outcome of desire nor accompanied by feelings of pleasure, but a matter to be decided on a basis of purely rational considerations,is it likely the human race would still exist? Would each of us not rather have felt so much pity for the coming generation as to prefer to spare it the burden of existence, or at least not wish to take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
- Arthur Schopenhauer

[Revenant]

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing. - Cioran

[Druidic]

From the zeros and the ones
In beteen those complicated sums
A system so advanced
It runs on blood
And it works by chance...

--Graham Parker: Love or Illusion

[Poliphilo]

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« to look into the pits of / and the blank of the word that does not come then / is its pits, to stare into that whole season of absence in its staring / seed of the seed that is not time / given in time into that / but what escapes from that black hole / is the recent angel of awareness / shriven staring, to write awareness » (Kenneth Irby)

[Revenant]

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. -Jack London

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever. - George Orwell

[ToALonelyPeace]

If relations between men are so difficult, it is because men have been created to knock each other down and not to have 'relations'.

-EM Cioran

[When_MP_Attacks]

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.

- Luigi Pirandello

[ToALonelyPeace]

So many times, so many, like now, it has oppressed me to feel myself feel--to feel anguish just because it's a feeling, restlessness because I'm here, nostalgia for something I've never known, the sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external self-awareness.

Ah, who will save me from existing?...It all amounts to the absence of a true God, an absence that is the empty cadaver of the lofty heavens and the closed soul. Infinite prison--since you're infinite, there's no escaping you!

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[ToALonelyPeace]

"To love one's neighbor is inconceivable. Does one ask a virus to love another virus?"

Emil Cioran, Anathemas and Admiration

[MTC]

"Hell is other people."

- Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit


"I read my death in the eyes of others."

- Boris Groys, In the Flow