Pessimism Quotes
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"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 ……………………………………………… The following website is a good introduction to philosophical pessimism (Not my website.): https://blackastheace.medium.com/life-is-not-great-1e803641f470
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“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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