Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2022
Tag: Pessimism
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
Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.
Emil Cioran
2022
The universe is composed of windowless monads each locked away and screaming.
David Roden
2022
History proves nothing because it contains everything.
Emil Cioran
2021
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H.P. Lovecraft
2022
Facing a landscape annihilated by the light, to remain serene supposes a temper I do not have. The sun is my purveyor of black thoughts; and summer the season when I have always reconsidered my relations with this world and with myself, to the greatest prejudice of both.
Emil Cioran
2022
Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people — the ancient Greeks, for instance — more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2022
