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“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“A crying baby is the purest expression of the inanity of being human.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“What is repulsive about children - all children - is not that they are not yet adults, but that they are already adults - whining, self-absorbed, demanding attention, unable to care for themselves, throwing tantrums when things don't go their way. Far from what we tell ourselves, children are the most concise expressions of humanity. At least children are unaware of this.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“There will always be someone who will see the futility of your actions. There will always be someone who is irritated by what you do, whatever you do. In this way we participate in a kind of shared, communal pessimism.”
― Eugene Thacker

“The indifference of the everyday gets the better of us all.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“It matters to me little whether they're on the Mongolian steppe, the deserts of West Africa, the Australian Outback, the marshlands of Southeast Asia... I can't escape the feeling of nausea...
And this is just the tip of the iceberg - the ongoing spectacle of humans blissfully ignorant, boisterous, over-confident, scheming, and talking big about their dominion overthe world - a suffocating, self-absorbed, vacuous place called the wrold-for-us - to say nothing of how human culture has legitimized the most horrific actions against itself, a sickening and banal drama of the exchange of bodies, the breeding of spe ies, the struggle for power, prosperity and prestige. It just keeps going on and on, no matter how many films or TV shows imagine -like a myth - the disappearance of the human.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“[T]he pinnacle of humanity lies in its ability to be disgusted with itself. What really separates us from other forms of life is our ability to detest our kind, to recognize the stupidity of being human. I spite, therefore I am.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“Contrary to what the great works of literature tell us, living in the modern city is neither heroic nor tragic - nor even comedic. It's simply pedantic.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“[T]he devastating possibility that "wasting time" and "passing time" amount to the same thing.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“How is it possible to feel nothing but unmitigated spite for so many different kinds of people?”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“Each time I read, and witness the scintillating and austere construction of a system, I cannot help but to feel a certain sadness - the edifice itself is somehow depressing.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“An hour of contemplation is preferable to a lifetime of ambition, though neither produces tangible results.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“A disgust and revulsion towards the species which has, as a further qualification, the disgust towards ourselves.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“Maybe the secret of the pessimistic aphorism is actually quite simple, even formulaic: one is always pretending to be a writer.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“Brahman into Atman, God incarnated as Christ, the Word made flesh - that any people at all should be a chosen people is the most depressing thought. Must everything that indifferently transcends the human always be brought back to it?”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“Philosophy as reducible to an alibi for one's existence - for all existents. Hubris. Fear.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“The pull of the organic towards the inorganic, of the animate towards the inanimate, of the living towards the unliving - the pull towards something "old."
In these moments, the human being is turned inside-out, revealing the entirety of human civilization as a bg-brain neurosis, beneath which a deeper, multi-layered geo-trauma manifests itself in a myriad of ways, from frenetic protozoa to the torpid, stumbling forth of human self-awareness.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“In the island the gods are killed, killed like animals. And the man who kills a god becomes a god himself.”
― Cesare Pavese, Dialoghi con Leucò

“And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this, and I do not. Everything is unique—and insignificant.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“To hate destructiveness one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“The past had vanished and become nothing; the future was the inconceivable nothingness of annihilation. All that was left was the ceaselessly shrinking fragment of time called 'now'.”
― Anna Kavan, Ice

“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Fragments

“The anxiety that attaches to periodic payments is very specific. It eventually sets in train a parallel process which weighs down on us day after day even though we never become conscious of the objective relationship involved. It haunts the human project, not immediate practice. An object that is mortgaged escapes us in time, and has in fact escaped us from the outset. It flees us, and its flight echoes that of the serial object ever vainly striving towards the model. This dual movement of things away from our grasp is what creates the latent fragility and ever-imminent disappointments of the world of objects that surrounds us.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects

“What this means is that subject is not the real person behind the symbolic mask but the self-awareness of the mask itself in its distance towards the real person.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed