Infinite Resignation

Self-Help. The moment you think you’re a pessimist is the moment you cease to be one.

Knowledge exists in inverse proportion to meaning. ~

Pessimism is misanthropy as an end, not a means – misanthropy without origin.

in writing, I feel a strange euphoria… there are so many ways to say nothing.

pessimism also has its own ontological argument: existence is that beyond which nothing worse can be conceived.

For optimists, the most perplexing question is how one becomes a pessimist – if one is not born one.

Morbidity. I used to be afraid of exercising. That was before I was dealing with these health problems. Now I’m afraid of not exercising. The fear is the same.

Sometimes I’m asked if I’m a pessimist. I need to find a clever answer to this question. Or make up a good joke. But the truth is that I am a pessimist… except when writing about pessimism. I’ve managed to make pessimism a form of therapy.

“What can be usefully postponed can be even more usefully abandoned” (Epictetus).