Benevolence is more a vice of pride than a true virtue of the soul.
Marquis de Sade
2026
Tag: Pessimism
We are each either among the demoralised showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrating our moment in hell.
Thomas Ligotti
2026
We all have strength enough to endure the troubles of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
2026
Can it really be that for us existence means exile, and nothingness, home?
Emil Cioran
2023
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2015
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: “See, here is what it is to be a human being.”
Søren Kierkegaard
2023
To be alive is to inhabit a nightmare without hope of awakening to a natural world, to have our bodies embedded neck-deep in a quagmire of dread, to live as shut-ins in a house of horrors from which nobody gets out alive.
Thomas Ligotti
2015
Poetry is the vision in a man’s soul which he translates as best he can with all the means at his disposal.
Paul Fort
2023
The phenomenon is not detached from the observer, but intertwined and involved with him.
JohannWolfgang von Goethe
2025
Where concern is lost, memory fares likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2025
