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  “The question that runs through these disputatio is the following: What if horror has less to do with a fear of death, and more to do with the dread of life?” ~ Eugene Thacker #pessimism #QuotesToLiveBy #death #life #philosophy

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  “Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.” ~ E. M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay #quotes #philosophy #pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #EMCioran

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  "’I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.’ This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.” ~ E. M. Cioran #quotes #philosophy #pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #Puppets #introspection

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  “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.” ~ E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist #quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism #EMCioran #nihilism #quotes

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  “Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.” ~ E. M. Cioran #pessimism #quotes #pessimismQuotes #nihilism #philosophy

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  “Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer #quotes #philosophy #nihilism #quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism

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  “Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer #quotes #philosophy #pessimism #quotesToLiveBy

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  @Axomamma Just because you don't like something does not mean it is evil.

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  @medley56@frontrange.co I feel the exact opposite. I see nonexistence as the greatest good. Why? Because even "good things" in this world are full of anxiety and suffering. See the philosophy of Julio Cabrera. I agree that morality, or ethics, are less convincing to me than they used to be. Mainly because humans do not have freewill. So how can they choose to refrain from having children? So how can ethics even work?

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  "Let us speak plainly: everything which keeps us from self-dissolution, every lie which protects us against our unbreathable certitudes is religious." ~E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist #Pessimism #Philosophy #Nihilism #Quotes

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  “A crying baby is the purest expression of the inanity of being human.” ~ Eugene Thacker .... .... .... #pessimism #philsophy #antinatalism #philosophicalPessimism #quotesToLiveBy

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  "Life’s tragic character gradually disappears as you go down the scale toward the inanimate realm… When you come to a point where you want to live like a plant, fully unconscious, then you have come to the despair of humanity." ~ Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair .... .... .... #pessimism #nihilism #philosophy #quotes #quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism

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  "Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." ~Ecclesiastes 7:3 - 7:4, The New Oxford Annotated Bible (New Revised Standard Version) #pessimism #bible #quotesToLiveBy #philosophicalPessimism

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  “The logic of pessimism moves through three refusals: a no-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-for-us, or Schopenhauer’s tears); a yes-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-in-itself, or Nietzsche’s laughter); and a no-saying to the for-us and the in-itself (a double refusal, or Cioran’s sleep).” “Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?” ~Eugene Thacker, Cosmic Pessimism #sleep #pessimism #philosophy #quotes #quotesToLiveBy

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  “Haven't people learned yet that the time of superficial intellectual games is over, that agony is infinitely more important than syllogism, that a cry of despair is more revealing than the most subtle thought, and that tears always have deeper roots than smiles?” —Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair #pessimism #philosophicalPessimism #quotesToLiveBy #quotesDaily #philosophy #quotes

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  “From an evolutionary viewpoint, in Zapffe’s observation, consciousness was a blunder that required corrections for its effects. It was an adventitious outgrowth that made us into a race of contradictory beings—uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation.” ~Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against The Human Race (TCATHR) 1/2 #consciousness #philosophicalPessimism #pessimism #ThomasLigotti #antinatalism

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  “In a culture that prizes the can-do, self-starter attitude, to be a pessimist is simply to be a complainer – if you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem. To live in such a culture is to constantly live in the shadow of an obligatory optimism, a novel type of coercion that is pathologized early on in child education in the assessment: ‘Does not like to play with others.’” ~ Eugene Thacker, Tentacles Longer Than the Night #philosophy #quotes #philosophicalPessimism

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  “We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life... the real evil, is behind, not ahead of us.” ~ Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born #philosophy #philosophicalPessimism #quotesToLiveBy #quotes #EMCioran #AntiNatalism

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  “Haven't people learned yet that the time of superficial intellectual games is over, that agony is infinitely more important than syllogism, that a cry of despair is more revealing than the most subtle thought, and that tears always have deeper roots than smiles?” ~Emil Cioran #pessimism #philosophy #quotes #philosophicalpessimism

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  "There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be." ―Arthur Schopenhauer #Quotes #Pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #Philosophy #Pessimist #PessimismQuotes #Atheism #Atheist

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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 #Philosophy #Quotes #PhilosophicalPessimism #Pessimism #Nihilism #Antinatalism #ArthurSchopenhauer