“Our existence is a lifelong quest for death. A sane species would have accepted this fact before inventing the mind-bogglingly pointless concept of "eternal life.”
― The Spirituality of Terror
― The Spirituality of Terror
“Happiness is the feeling you have just before something goes wrong.”
― Infinite Resignation
― Infinite Resignation
“Pain is the source of all matter. It is the force that holds the universe together, that will tear it apart, only to rebuild again. Throughout the ages, humanity asks over and over again “why are we here?” and then pretends as if the Void does not bellow the answer back every single time. We are here to hurt each other. Again, and again, and again, in perpetuity.”
― We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
― We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
“We had exhausted all the common manners of distraction as well as some less common ones. No matter what ecstasy we might have achieved, a moment later the same old routine of eating, excreting and emoting demanded its right. Nature, mindlessly bestowing millennia of mayhem in her vast theater of wriggling decay, did not care, of course, yet seemed to mock us with every crooked tree, each one a megalomaniac weed, and every shrill cry of some idiot bird (is “Nevermore!” really that hard to get right?), with the deformed, torn clouds adding a distinct sense of clumsy kindergarten-level artistry to the scene. The impudence of a sickly moon I would be willing to forgive, perhaps even to enjoy as a sardonic quirk, but who could not take umbrage with the utterly random distributions of stars? How often must I tell you to clean up that mess in the sky?”
― Post Mortem Diversions
― Post Mortem Diversions
“There is no surer sign of pessimism than an overly-optimistic person.”
― Infinite Resignation
― Infinite Resignation
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