“Why don’t I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.” -E. M. Cioran, The New Gods4yr ⋅ idownvotelife ⋅ r/Pessimism
To come into being is to be ontologically impoverished, sensibly affected and ethically blocked: to be alive is a fight against everything and everybody, trying all the time to escape from suffering, failure and injustice. -Julio Cabrera5yr ⋅ idownvotelife ⋅ r/antinatalism
Almost nobody declares that an ancestral curse contaminates us in utero and pollutes our existence. -Thomas Ligotti5yr ⋅ idownvotelife ⋅ r/Pessimism
The horrors that glut the universe constitute an integral part of its substance; without them, the universe would physically cease to exist. -E. M. Cioran.5yr ⋅ idownvotelife ⋅ r/Pessimism
It is a popular error to imagine that man's misfortunes are the result of his impiety and iniquity. On the contrary, his wickedness is the consequence of his misfortunes. -Giacomo Leopardi, History of the Human Race5yr ⋅ idownvotelife ⋅ r/Pessimism
The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. -Pascal, Pensees (171)5yr ⋅ idownvotelife ⋅ r/Pessimism
