Lovely Pessimism

This little collection is going to help you to get ahead of your friends in optimism and positivity with the power of pessimism. Nah.

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“The true Garden of Eden is desolation.”

― Ulrich Horstmann

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“Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time, for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore.”

― Andrei Platonov, Soul

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“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.”

― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

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“I´m a stranger in a strange land.”

― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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“As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.”

― Jack London, The Star Rover

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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“It all ends in tears anyway.”

― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”

― Chuck Palahniuk

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“Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it?”

- Horace McCoy

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“Common sense is not so common.”

― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”

― Emil M. Cioran

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“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.”

― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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“Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.”

― László Krasznahorkai, Satantango

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“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”

― Anthony Burgess, Homage To Qwert Yuiop: Essays

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“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”

― Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

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“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”

― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

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“I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.”