La tristesse durera toujours

"Let us for a moment imagine that the act of procreation were not a necessity or accompanied by intense pleasure, but a matter of pure rational deliberation; could then the human race really continue to exist? Would not everyone rather feel so much sympathy for the coming generation that he would prefer to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate would not like to assume in cold blood the responsibility of imposing on it such a burden? The world is just a hell and in it human beings are the tortured souls on the one hand, and the devils on the other. I suppose I shall have to be told again that my philosophy is cheerless and comfortless simply because I tell the truth, whereas people want to hear that the Lord has made all things very well. Go to your churches and leave us philosophers in peace!"Arthur Schopenhauer, Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Suffering of the World (via hyperboreanvoyager)

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195Reblog "Ah, who will save me from existing? It’s neither death nor life that I want"Fernando Pessoa “The Book of Disquiet” (via good-morning-scarecrow)44Reblog "…And I seem to have such strength in me now, that I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, ‘I exist.’ In thousands of agonies―I exist. I’m tormented on the rack―but I exist! Though I sit alone on a pillar―I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there."Dmitri to Alyosha in Book XI, Chapter IV of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. (via cataclysm-in-repose)91Reblog "You can feel life like a sickness in the pit of the stomach, the existence of your own soul like a muscular cramp."Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via qvkq)

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76Reblog "I suddenly felt that it made no difference to me whether the world existed or whether nothing existed anywhere at all. I began to be acutely conscious that nothing existed in my own lifetime. At first I couldn’t help feeling that at any rate in the past many things had existed; but later on I came to the conclusion that there had not been anything even in the past, but that for some reason it had merely seemed to have been. Little by little I became convinced that there would be nothing in the future, either."Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (via c-ovet)

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129Reblog "How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."Arthur Schopenhauer (via c-ovet)

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30Reblog "I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next."Emil Cioran (via itsy-bitchy)65Reblog "To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one’s own and those of others - which so often exceed one’s capacities? And what is more, to endure one’s own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human."Ivo Andrić11Reblog "I just think life is meaningless altogether, most of the time. Yes, there is beauty in the moment, but beyond that? People come and go and you can never count on anyone, and life is just life; a mystery, and ultimately meaningless. The meaning is in the creation, and the creation is a human construct; and people just make up stuff in order to get through life."René Vernor, from Anything Is Possible (via c-ovet)

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640Reblog "The implications of life’s meaninglessness have not been elicited with sufficient ruthlessness. My methodology is honesty to the point of absurdity; honesty without mercy; honesty unprejudiced by morals, aesthetics, faith, or hope. When all illusions have been dispelled, at the end of overcoming subjectivities, biases, and prejudices towards life, one encounters the possibility of rational negation of self-interest; rational self-annihilation; rational self-destruction."Mitchell Heisman, from his suicide note (An Experiment in Nihilism)

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128Reblog "Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others."Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via clairvoyant—-disease)20Reblog "I swear to you, gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness."Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via deaths-and-entrances)

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121Reblog "It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world."Mark Haddon from The Red House (via c-ovet)

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1272Reblog "So great is this tedium, so sovereign my horror of being alive, that I can’t conceive of anything that might serve as a palliative, antidote, balsam or distraction for it. Sleeping horrifies me the way everything does. Dying is as horrifying as everything else. Going and stopping are the same impossible thing. Hope and doubt are equally cold and grey. I’m a shelf of empty jars."Fernando Pessoa (via armsoreal)50Reblog "The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."Arthur Schopenhauer (via a-phorist)

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