"We laugh, but inept is our laughter;
We should weep and weep sore,
Who are shattered like glass, and thereafter
Remolded no more.”
—Al-Ma’arri
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The following website is a good introduction to philosophical pessimism (Not my website.):
https://blackastheace.medium.com/life-is-not-great-1e803641f470
“There is nothing to be got in the world anywhere; privation and pain pervade it, and boredom lies in wait at every corner for those who have escaped them. Moreover, wickedness usually reigns, and folly does all the talking. Fate is cruel, and human beings are pathetic.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
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“It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience.”
—H. P. Lovecraft
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“Our ‘love for life’ is always, in some way, unrequited love.... Life does not care about us; it does not even know about our particular circumstances. Contrary to what is said, life gives nothing for free, and everything we manage to obtain is snatched away from us.”
—Julio Cabrera
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“The world is an inextricable tangle of contradictions of the most tragic negativity.”
—Julius Bahnsen
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“The incapacity to repose alongside both the mountains and the mold of this planet is the fountainhead of the torments we wreak on one another. ”
—Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race
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“Imagine he said, all the flesh that is eaten, the teeth tearing into it, the tongue tasting its savor, and the hunger for that taste. Now take away that flesh, he said, take away the teeth and the tongue, the taste and the hunger, take away everything as it is. That was my plan. My own special plan for this world.”
—Thomas Ligotti, I Have A Special Plan For This World
“Human life is valueless not because ‘there is more evil than good’ in it. It is valueless in its terminal structure, which cannot be divided into pieces to be weighed or measured. Lives with a total predominance of goods over evils and lives tormented by poverty, sickness and discrimination are both structurally valueless.”
—Julio Cabrera, Discomfort and Moral Impediment
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