Infinite Resignation

“Only optimists commit suicide” (Cioran).

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

“What prevents a work from being completed becomes the work itself.”

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.

We are the species that has sacrificed breath for speech.

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.

Knowledge exists in inverse proportion to meaning. ~

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