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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Emil M. Cioran
“If it is true that by death we once more become what we were before being, would it not have been better to abide by that pure possibility, not to stir from it? What use was this detour, when we might have remained forever in an unrealized plenitude?”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
tags: antinatalism, antinatalist, death, existence, peace, pessimism
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Emil M. Cioran
“The notion that it would have been better never to exist is among those which meet with the most opposition. Every man, incapable of seeing himself except from inside, regards himself as necessary, even indispensable, every man feels and perceives himself as an absolute reality, as a whole, as the whole. The moment we identify ourselves entirely with our being, we react like God, we are God.
It is only when we live at once within and on the margins of ourselves that we can conceive, quite calmly, that it would have been preferable that the accident we are should never have occurred.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
tags: antinatalism, antinatalist, narcissism, pessimism, philsophy
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Emil M. Cioran
“I was alone in that cemetery overlooking the village when a pregnant woman came in. I left at once, in order not to look at this corpse-bearer at close range, nor to ruminate upon the contrast between an aggressive womb and the time-worn tombs -- between a false promise and the end of promises.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
tags: antinatalism, antinatalist, cemetery, pessimism, pregnant, tomb
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Gautama Buddha
“Nanda, I do not extol the production of a new existence even a little bit; nor do I extol the production of a new existence for even a moment. Why? The production of a new existence is suffering. For example, even a little [bit of] vomit stinks. In the same way, Nanda, the production of a new existence, even a little bit, even for a moment, is suffering. Therefore, Nanda, whatever comprises birth, [namely] the arising of matter, its subsistence, its growth, and its emergence, the arising, subsistence, growth, and emergence of feeling, conceptualization, conditioning forces, and consciousness, [all of that] is suffering. Subsistence is illness. Growth is old age and death. Therefore, Nanda, what contentment is there for one who is in the mother's womb wishing for existence?”
― Gautama Buddha
tags: antinatalism, antinatalist, buddhism
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Many of us are failed secret attempts to keep our parents together.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: antinatalism, antinatalist, breakup, child, childfree, childless, children, divorce, parenthood, pregnancy
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Emil M. Cioran
“X maintains we are at the end of a "cosmic cycle" and that soon everything will fall apart. And he does not doubt this for one moment.
At the same time, he is the father of a--numerous--family. With certitudes like his, what aberration has deluded him into bringing into a doomed world one child after the next? If we foresee the End, if we are sure it will be coming soon, if we even anticipate it, better to do so alone. One does not procreate on Patmos.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
tags: anti-natalism, antinatalism, antinatalist, child-free, patmos, pessimism, suffering
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“Or what
The evil for us, if we had ne'er been born?�
As though, forsooth, in darkling realms and woe
Our life were lying till should dawn at last
The day-spring of creation! Whosoever
Hath been begotten wills perforce to stay
In life, so long as fond delight detains;
But whoso ne'er hath tasted love of life,
And ne'er was in the count of living things,
What hurts it him that he was never born?”
― Titus Lucretius Carus, OF THE NATURE OF THINGS
tags: antinatalism, antinatalismo, antinatalist, better-never-to-have-been, birth, i-wish-i-wasn-t-born, life-and-living, জন-মদ-নব-�-�
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