#simi

Fuck you! I hope you die!" "Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you. ↗

— Lawrence Block

#pessimism #truth #death

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#death #desperation #french-literature #life #paul-et-virginie

All live to die, and rise to fall. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#fate #life #pessimism #death

How can you say that so casually? You're talking about the possible death of hundreds of people, yourself included." He gave a negligent shrug. "Wrong place, wrong time. Life sucks. ↗

— Shannon K. Butcher

#death #life #life-sucks #pessimism #wrong

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good. ↗

— John Corey Whaley

#outlook #pessimism #where-things-come-back #life

We've got rights the right to starve We've got jobs waiting for work We're all brothers lousy and dirty We're all free and equal to die like dogs ↗

— Peter Weiss

#equality

Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices. ↗

— An Na

#assimilation #education #gender-equality #korean #education

Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any. ↗

— John Callahan

#humor #sex #simile #funny

Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power. Nihilism reminds us that we are not gods, and that despite all of the accomplishments and wonders of civilization, humans cannot alter the fact that they possess only a finite amount of mastery and control over their own destinies. ↗

— John Marmysz

#optimism #pessimism #equality

Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has produced a countervailing conviction that educating, organizing, uniting, and acting will make a difference. ↗

— David T. Dellinger

#pessimism #political #resistance #education