Quotes from the Void
Words that stuck around long enough to be written down.
Consciousness is the original sin: to know is to suffer.
We build tombs not for the dead, but to distract the living.
The will to die is the only true will of the world.
Optimism is the great totalitarianism of our time.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
To live without hope is to cease to live... but to live with hope is often worse.
Expect everything, and you will be disappointed by nothing.
The absence of pain is good, even if no one is experiencing that good. But the absence of pleasure is not bad unless there is someone for whom this absence is a deprivation.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Nothing is more depressing than the hope that things will improve.
Hope is a filthy word. It has killed more than despair ever could.
What does man pride himself on, whose desire is a mistake, whose birth is suffering, whose life is laborious, and whose fate is death?
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go
In the face of the abyss, I find solace in the thought of sweet oblivion.
Nothing truly matters; we are all just actors in a play without an audience.
Every moment of joy is tainted by the inevitability of sorrow.
In the face of the infinite, our lives are but a brief flicker.
Hope is the cruelest illusion we create for ourselves.
In the end, we are all just echoes in the void.
Life is a series of moments that ultimately lead to nothing.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
If there were no death, everyone would yearn for it. Desperate cries would ascend to the high sky. They would cast curses upon nature.
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hell is other people!
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