Philosophical pessimism Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Philosophical pessimism.
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“Misanthropy”
“Antinatalism”
“Wild animal suffering”
“Negative utilitarianism”
“Suffering-focused ethics”
“Birth was the death of him.”
“Elements, animals, humans, everything is at war.”
“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
“Can it really be that for us existence means exile, and nothingness, home?”
“Birth is metaphysical injury. Healing takes time – the span of one’s life.”
“Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and which has not ended badly.”
“Our susceptibility to pain is wellnigh infinite; but that to pleasure has narrow limits.”
“The kingdom of heaven after death, nirvana and absolute nothingness are one and the same.”
“The will must not only despise death, it must love it; for chastity is the love of death.”
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”
“Life is a loan with which the borrower does but add more dust and dirt to the sum total of existence.”
“I aspire to nothing. Life hurts me. I’m not well where I am nor anywhere else I can think of being.”
“Living seems to me a metaphysical mistake on the part of matter, an oversight on the part of inaction.”
“A spoonful of tar can spoil a barrel of honey, but a spoonful of honey does nothing for a barrel of tar.”
“A bit of philosophizing leads to a wonderment of life. A lot of philosophizing leads to a contempt of it.”