The world is becoming tame and sad and dreary.
Richard Thurland
2021
Tag: Pessimism
Eternity is absence.
Emil Cioran
2021
Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.
Emil Cioran
2021
There is no substituting anything else for Life. After Life there is only Death.
Oswald Spengler
2021
To think many have succeeded in dying.
Emil Cioran
2021
Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don’t know, and we don’t really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.
Emil Cioran
2021
There is but one end to all the conflict, and that is death—the death of individuals, of peoples, of cultures. Our own death still lies far ahead of us in the murky darkness of the next thousand years.
Oswald Spengler
2021
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
Emil Cioran
2021
To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I’d welcome the plague as a blessing.
Emil Cioran
2015 edited 2021
People say, “Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2020
Parallel Aesthetics 