There is a special kind of Purgatory that involves waiting for something not to happen.

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

“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”

Schopenhauer once described comedy as “seriousness concealed within a joke.” The inverse is philosophy.

Nietzsche once defined “not being able to wait” as one of our most typically human qualities. In culture as in history, all tragedies and comedies are simply the result of someone not being able to wait. If Medea had simply taken the day off? If Hamlet had put things off for even longer? If Arjuna has called the whole thing off? But not being able

Pessimism is the most generous of thoughts; it includes everyone, if only by virtue of their existing. ~ * ~

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

If enthusiasm is the weakness of pessimists, then procrastination is the weakness of optimists. Stanisław Lec: “Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.”

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