the euphoria of pessimism

Knowledge exists in inverse proportion to meaning. ~

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

“Only optimists commit suicide” (Cioran).

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

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

To admire a misanthrope.

“…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.

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