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Julian Barnes
“So, to get a reputation for wisdom, you must be a pessimist who predicts a happy ending.”
Julian Barnes, Love, etc.

Chuck Palahniuk
“Every breath you take is because something has
died. Something or someone lived and died so you could have this life. This mountain of dead, they lift you into daylight.

“Will the effort and energy and momentum of their lives
. . .”

How will it find you? How will you enjoy their gift?”
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk
“Every breath you take is because something has died. Something or someone lived and died so you could have this life. This mountain of dead, they lift you into daylight.

“Will the effort and energy and momentum of their lives
. . .”

How will it find you? How will you enjoy their gift?”
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk
“It never changes, he says. The other group he brought here, it ended this same way.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the
stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk
“It never changes, he says. The other group he brought here, it ended this same way.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk
“One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march upon us, wailing, and the purest children of God would have to deliver themselves unto the Lord by their own hand. The Deliverance”
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

Julian Barnes
“Of course, no one dies at exactly the correct moment: some too early, some too late.”
Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“Humanity is a moral disaster. There would have been much less damage had we never evolved. The fewer humans there are in the future the less damage there will still be.”
David Benatar, Debating Procreation: Is It Wrong to Reproduce?

Adam  Washington
“Misophorism is the absolute reality that misathymia (which is Misery—which is Death—which is Truth) is everywhere, the ubiquitous constant—it is inescapable. Reality is naught but misathymia. It inheres within every facet of life.
We must thus consider its avenues and disabuse ourselves of petty nothings, for if the ultimate goal of life is comfort and joy, it is ill-suited for existence, as all Life Forms must toil. A worm, with no cerebrations whatever, must, by its ingrained nature, suffer to survive, lest it starve or be devoured. Higher statures face the same. An ape; it must protect its territory lest it too starve or be maimed. What of their assailants? Has the Creator (whatever form it takes!) bequeathed to them unique ataraxy?
The barbaric slaughter of prey betrays the starvation of the predator. Should it fail to nourish itself, desperation irrupts into its withering form, until, at last, it betakes itself to cannibalism. Nature’s brutality is manifest. No creature knows peace; fear inheres within each.
And what of Man, the highest stature of all? Within him misathymia is inordinate. His intellect has rendered him beyond all other creatures, doubtless a bitter Curse. Consciousness educes the silent agony from within him, for when he finds shelter and nourishment, his mind ambles about, his atavistic nature befuddled with none to Kill and none to flee from. In this, greater forms of misery may be achieved. The Brutish Man cannot conceive of the miseries of homelessness, nor of the agonies of ostracization, of exile, of impoverishment. A man without the conception of wealth cannot comprehend the loss of it, nor the torment it educes. The Ancient Man cannot fathom the Array of New Horrors that assail him today. This betrays the cruelty of all things; life’s predilection for suffering is unquestionable. All Good exists to further life’s affinity for greater forms of horror. For this, Sane men have but one choice: to destroy oneself.”
Adam Washington, The Misophorism Trilogy

Luigina Sgarro
“Everyone tends to evaluate others starting from themselves. This is a disadvantage for people with a negative attitude, because they constantly underestimate and condemn others, and it is a disadvantage for those with a positive attitude, because they constantly overestimate and justify others.
On the other hand, the latter experience better the intervals between the effects of one bad evaluation and another.”
Luigina Sgarro

Jacob H. Kyle
“There is no superstition beheld anywhere in the universe’s haphazard amalgam, no doctrine or spiritual purpose to climb or better inquire, no valid reason unearthed that existence ought to precede Nothingness.”
Jacob H. Kyle, The Tedium Lies

Thomas Ligotti
“No other like forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone.”
Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“We keep people alive on death row just so we can kill them later. We put prisoners on suicide watch so they can't do themselves in before we get the chance to put them on trial... Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it's not okay for those people to do it themselves?”
Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

Duncan Ralston
“Pessimism ain't the fucking antidote, don't get me wrong. But a healthy dose of it does a lot of good.”
Duncan Ralston, Dead Men Walking: a Novelette

Emil M. Cioran
“Offspring of some wretched tribe, he prowls the boulevards of the West. Cherishing one country after the next, he no longer hopes for any; stuck in a timeless twilight citizen of the world--and of no world--he is ineffectual, nameless, powerless... Peoples without a destiny cannot give one to their sons who, thirsting for other horizons, attach themselves to a fate and ultimately exhaust it to finish their days as ghosts of their admirations and their exhaustions. Having nothing to love at home, they locate their love elsewhere, in other lands, where their fervor astonishes the natives. Overworked, the feelings erode and disintegrate, admiration first of all... And the Alien who dispersed himself on so many highways of the world, exclaims: "I have set up countless idols for myself, have raised too many altars everywhere, and I have knelt before a host of gods. Now, weary of worship, I have squandered my share of delirium. One has resources only for the absolutes of one's breed; a soul--like a country--flourishes only within its frontiers. I am paying for having crossed them, for having made the Indefinite into a fatherland, and foreign divinities into a cult, for having prostrated myself before ages which excluded my ancestors. Where I come from I can no longer say: in the temples I am without belief; in the cities, without ardor; among my kind, without curiosity; on the earth, without certitudes. Give me a specific desire and I could shake the world to its foundations. Release me from this shame of actions which makes me perform, every morning, the farce of resurrection and, every night, that of entombment; in the interval, nothing but this torment in the shroud of ennui... I dream of wanting--and all I want seems to me worthless. Like a vandal corroded by melancholy, I proceed without a goal, self without a self, toward some unknown corner... in order to discover an abandoned god, a god who is his own atheist, and to fall asleep in the shadow of his last doubts and his last miracles.”
Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

Joseph Hayyim Brenner
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Joseph Hayyim Brenner, ?????

Anubhav    Srivastava
“We judge them by calling "negative", "pessimistic" or "glass is half empty" kinds of people. What we don't see is that it's not entirely someone's fault that they see they become cynical about life. Nobody is a born pessimist. Every single baby, whether human or non-human, starts off their journey in this world as an optimist and filled with hope, it is what they encounter in life as they grow older that either keeps them positive or slowly turns them negative.”
Anubhav Srivastava

Frederick the Great
“Fortune has it in for me; she is a woman, and I am not that way inclined.”
Frederick the Great

Liu Cixin
&濒诲辩耻辞;「哈哈哈哈??」沉华北大笑起来,失重的虚弱使他站立不稳,但在精神上他已亢奋到极点,「长城和金字塔都是完全失败的超级工程,前者没能挡住北方骑马民族的入侵,后者也没能使其中的法老木乃伊復活,但时间使这些都无关重要,只有凝结在其上的人类精神永远光彩照人!」他指指身后高高耸立的地球隧道南极站,「与这条伟大的地心长城相比,你们这些哭哭啼啼的孟姜女是多麼可怜!哈哈哈哈??」&谤诲辩耻辞;
Liu Cixin, 地球大炮(Chinese Edition)

Ernest Dowson
“Dregs
The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof,
(This is the end of every song man sings!)
The golden wine is drunk, the dregs remain,
Bitter as wormwood and as salt as pain;
And health and hope have gone the way of love
Into the drear oblivion of lost things.
Ghosts go along with us until the end;
This was a mistress, this, perhaps, a friend.
With pale, indifferent eyes, we sit and wait
For the dropped curtain and the closing gate:
This is the end of all the songs man sings.
- Ernest Dowson”
Ernest Dowson

Dejan Stojanovic
“The difference between love and will, although only formal, is fatal regarding the worldview or outlook of the philosopher in question. Everything must be joyous for the one coming from the principle of love, but for the one coming from the principle of will, as a blind force and strife, the world is less rosy and cheerful. This pessimism comes less from two inherently different models that would imply two different sets of rules (happiness, among other things) but more from the inability of the world to get rid of its will, which is to say, to commit suicide, to get rid of itself. In the case of love, this proposition is impossible because that is a joyous and lovely world. Still, in the case of blind will, the main characteristic of the world is existence at any cost, regardless of hardship, misery, and pain.”
Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Longevity can be a source of corrective optimism. I recall an occasion early in the George W. Bush presidency when my friend and former physician, Quentin Young, was confronted at a talk by a medical student who lamented that she couldn't imagine being able to win any progressive objectives because the right had been in power all her conscious life. Quentin, who was then about eighty years old, responded that a virtue of having lived as long as he had was that he knew that almost no one, no matter how far left or how optimistic, standing in 1950 would have predicted that the back of the Jim Crow system would be broken within fifteen years. He was correct, and that's a good lesson for us all to keep in mind in this most perilous time in this country and the world.”
Adolph L. Reed Jr.

Adam  Washington
“To the happy man, Death is easy: a misplaced step, a lapse of reason, a turn too soon. To the depressive, Death is impossible: a snapped rope, a vein missed, a jammed gun. The result was nothing more than learned helplessness. After so many attempts, I’ve lost hope in my final exit.”
Adam Washington, The Misophorism Trilogy

Adam  Washington
“Each second we live, we lose everything.”
Adam Washington, The Misophorism Trilogy

Thomas Ligotti
“He whispered
That my plan was misconceived
That my special plan for this world was a terrible mistake
Because, he said, there is nothing to do and there is no where to go
There is nothing to be and there is no one to know
Your plan is a mistake, he repeated
This world is a mistake, I replied”
Thomas Ligotti, I Have a Special Plan for This World

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“It is the doubt of success that insures the fulfillment of that doubt.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Pessimism is the cancer of dreams.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sahir Ludhianvi
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Sahir Ludhianvi, Kuliyat e Sahir / ????? ????

“I have the option to be optimistic or pessimistic and my choice is to be optimistic.”
George W. Bush Institute, We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope

Slavoj ?i?ek
“Q: What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

A: That life is a stupid, meaningless thing that has nothing to teach you.”
Slavoj ?i?ek