the euphoria of pessimism

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

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

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.”

The more I talk to people, the less I see the point in conversation. I’ve often been in the midst of a conversation and have suddenly, unwillingly, been extracted mysteriously from it, as if I were observing the whole thing with a strange sense of detached melancholy, like an out-of-body experience.

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

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

We are the species that has sacrificed breath for speech.

“Only optimists commit suicide” (Cioran).

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.