652 Quotes About Pessimism

Sex for pleasure is chewing gum for genitals.

Disease intensifies narcissism, especially if it is terminal.

We go through life seeing plenty of walls but too few doors, despite the fact that every wall has one.

The only place where the sun doesn’t come up is in the middle of an attitude that says it won’t come up. But even there it comes up. It’s just that we refused to look up.

Happiness makes us think that life is worth living, whereas depression makes us think that life is worth leaving.

Some of those who have killed themselves would readily kill themselves again if they could.

Hope and the fear of death stand in the way of suicide being the leading cause of human death.

In some cases, the mind doesn’t share the body’s desire to continue living.

And this nothing, this everything, cannot give life a meaning, but it nonetheless makes life persevere in what it is: a state of non-suicide.