Infinite Resignation

Nietzsche once described the pessimist as a clever person who has ruined their stomach so as to complain about the food,

To admire a misanthrope.

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.

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

Askesis. A paraphrase of Schopenhauer: what death is for the organism, sleep is for the individual. Contrary to what many may think, pessimists sleep not because they are depressed, but because for them sleep is a form of training.

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

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

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

like this – “not being able to wait” itself cannot wait. How, then, should we understand an instantaneous, on-demand, twenty-first-century, “global” culture such as ours, constituted almost exclusively by waiting? Waiting for the subway, waiting for lunch, waiting for a friend, waiting at the airport, waiting to be called, waiting to not hurt, wait