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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,264 ratings — published 2011
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,290 ratings — published 1973
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,430 ratings — published 2006
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,276 ratings — published 1949
The Last Messiah (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,951 ratings — published 1933
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,539 ratings — published 1818
On the Heights of Despair (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,929 ratings — published 1934
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,979 ratings — published 2011
The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.00 — 901 ratings — published
Cosmic Pessimism (Univocal)
by (shelved 22 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.67 — 549 ratings — published 2015
Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.20 — 187 ratings — published 2006
Studies in Pessimism: The Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,292 ratings — published 1890
Essays and Aphorisms (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,431 ratings — published 1851
The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,569 ratings — published 1844
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,174 ratings — published 2002
The Temptation to Exist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,523 ratings — published 1956
Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.35 — 446 ratings — published 1933
Persuasion and Rhetoric (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.28 — 395 ratings — published 1910
On the Suffering of the World (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,414 ratings — published 1850
The Philosophy of Redemption (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.17 — 348 ratings — published 1876
Infinite Resignation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.97 — 466 ratings — published 2018
Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.05 — 459 ratings — published 2013
Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.37 — 112 ratings — published 2016
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,198 ratings — published 1973
Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.88 — 567 ratings — published 2015
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.38 — 40,622 ratings — published 1982
History and Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,679 ratings — published 1960
Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.95 — 381 ratings — published 2015
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.18 — 50,474 ratings — published 1932
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,438 ratings — published 2013
Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.75 — 357 ratings — published 2007
The New Gods (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,173 ratings — published 1969
Good News, Bad News (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,801 ratings — published 2012
Half Empty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,443 ratings — published 2010
Teatro Grottesco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,290 ratings — published 2006
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.92 — 295,763 ratings — published 1948
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.43 — 579,308 ratings — published 1899
المياه كلها بلون الغرق (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,077 ratings — published 1952
Keeping Ourselves in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.97 — 64 ratings — published 2015
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,334,626 ratings — published 1963
Canti (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.38 — 3,443 ratings — published 1845
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.85 — 13,034 ratings — published 1935
The Philosophy of Disenchantment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.04 — 77 ratings — published 1885
Pessimism: A History and a Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2006
Maxims (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,592 ratings — published 1665
Tears and Saints (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,572 ratings — published 1937
Confessions of an Antinatalist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pessimism)
avg rating 3.76 — 159 ratings — published 2010
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,553,325 ratings — published 1942
A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published
Happiness is for the Pigs: Philosophy vs Psychotherapy (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as pessimism)
avg rating 4.30 — 37 ratings — published
“Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.”
― Essays
― Essays
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
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