Original Quotes

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Come up with an original quote, preferably pessimistic in nature. It can be your own or a different author's.

"Of all life on earth, the human species is the stupidest. It mistakes its existence alone for an argument that life is some kind of divine gift."
 
"Your hope for Failure is as futile as any other hope. Unaware of its infiltration from the beginning, you topple in circle uselessly for a fate that has always awaited you."
 
A few scattered quotations from an as yet unpublished novel of mine:


"Individually, every human being is as beautiful as a Botticelli portrait. Collectively, the human race is as horrifying as a Bosch hellscape."

“Why not just reject everything? Consider the vast amount of planets and galaxies out there… what if each and every one of them were free from the taint of sentient life? The universe as a symphony of non-existence, the music of the spheres ruined by one false note: our planet. Wouldn’t that make us a sort of cosmic teratoma, a planet-sized polyp despoiling the purity of an otherwise immaculate vacuum?"

"The Ancient Greeks were wrong when they classified Echidna the She-Viper as the progenitor of all horrors: human consciousness is the true Mother of Monsters."
 
From an unpublished story of mine:

"The courageous die but the cowards live, and I am a coward."
 
Odd that you should post this, DarkView since I have a notebook filled with apocryphal quotes of great writers/historical personages. It was a sardonic hobby for me a ling time ago. This is an old one but one of my favorites:


I don't know if the glass is half-filled or half-empty, but I know the water is poisoned.
 
Life throws us the occasional pleasure in much the same fashion as we throw a dog a bone. But why do I suspect the dog has a better deal? Perhaps because the best masters are not as cruel and capricious as Fate; and the dog can expect a fairly regular supply of bones.
 
A man is Nothing without a woman. A woman is Nothing without a man. But together?
Do the math.


Lacking ambition, my great ambition was to become more ambitious. Did I succeed? I couldn't care less.
 
"The worst part of being in love is that it’s impossible to prove to the beloved how sincere you are in the matter. It requires an act of faith on both ends."

"Make no mistake. Nature favors the barbaric and the morally blind. If something exists, it’s probably in defiance of good taste. That’s why great and noble things appear to have visited us from another world; they also leave us the very moment they arrive."

"I’ve always imagined the human brain to be a complex tumor."

"It’s no surprise that people are quick to accuse a person of being responsible for their own suffering. It’s a way of keeping them from acknowledging the awful fact that the same suffering can and will happen to them without rhyme or reason in the future."
 
DarkView said:
Come up with an original quote, preferably pessimistic in nature. It can be your own or a different author's.

"Of all life on earth, the human species is the stupidest. It mistakes its existence alone for an argument that life is some kind of divine gift."
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lol
 
njhorror said:
DarkView said:
Come up with an original quote, preferably pessimistic in nature. It can be your own or a different author's.

"Of all life on earth, the human species is the stupidest. It mistakes its existence alone for an argument that life is some kind of divine gift."
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lol
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I despise internet acronyms. Was that meant to express derision or a melancholy humorous rumination on the quote?
 
DarkView said:
Come up with an original quote, preferably pessimistic in nature. It can be your own or a different author's.

"Of all life on earth, the human species is the stupidest. It mistakes its existence alone for an argument that life is some kind of divine gift."
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I'm always surprised by how many people think life is somehow intrinsically valuable. You're right: "I exist, therefore I'm special."
 
Mr. Veech said:
DarkView said:
Come up with an original quote, preferably pessimistic in nature. It can be your own or a different author's.

"Of all life on earth, the human species is the stupidest. It mistakes its existence alone for an argument that life is some kind of divine gift."
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I'm always surprised by how many people think life is somehow intrinsically valuable. You're right: "I exist, therefore I'm special."
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It's one reason logic and reason are usually applied outwardly, and almost never to one's own existence.
 
For the mortal man there are only two directions: forward and forward. Forward as the young run from death and forward as the old gratefully run to it.
 
DarkView said:
njhorror said:
DarkView said:
Come up with an original quote, preferably pessimistic in nature. It can be your own or a different author's.

"Of all life on earth, the human species is the stupidest. It mistakes its existence alone for an argument that life is some kind of divine gift."
Click to expand...


lol
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I despise internet acronyms. Was that meant to express derision or a melancholy humorous rumination on the quote?
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The latter. I find the quote quite humorous.
 
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"How the mind does not go completely mad and send us screaming off some cliff or tall building upon waking each day is a simple case of that dumb animal we pretend doesn't exist mauling it into submission."
 
Optimists and pessimists share the same flaw in their philosophy: they foolishly believe the universe deals the same cards to all at the table.
 
You never know when you are going to die, so eat your dessert first.

If one truly expects only the worst from people, one can only be pleasantly surprised.
 
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