It is the heritage of anguished centuries, and it distinguishes us from all other people – us, the youngest and last people of our culture.
Oswald Spengler
2022
Tag: Pessimism
Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
Emil Cioran
2022
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe
2022
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through.
H.P. Lovecraft
2022
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2022
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
Emil Cioran
2022
Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.
Philipp Mainländer
2015
We are each either among the demoralized showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrating our moment in hell.
Thomas Ligotti
2022
There is nothing in the whole world that can be compared to [the hand], equally capable of touch and action. To the eye of the beast off prey which commands the world ‘theoretically’ is added the hand of Man which commands it perfectly.
Oswald Spengler
2022
Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.
Emil Cioran
2022
Parallel Aesthetics 