“To shake people up, to wake them from their sleep, while knowing you are committing a crime and that it would be a thousand times better to leave them alone, since when they wake, too, you have nothing to offer them....” PhilosophyPessimismWakingAntinatalism Book:The Trouble with Being Born Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“X maintains we are at the end of a "cosmic cycle" and that soon everything will fall apart. And he does not doubt this for one moment. At the same time, he is the father of a--numerous--family. With certitudes like his, what aberration has deluded him into bringing into a doomed world one child after the next? If we foresee the End, if we are sure it will be coming soon, if we even anticipate it, better to do so alone. One does not procreate on Patmos.” SufferingPessimismAntinatalismAnti NatalismAntinatalistChild FreePatmos Book:The Trouble with Being Born Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“If it is true that by death we once more become what we were before being, would it not have been better to abide by that pure possibility, not to stir from it? What use was this detour, when we might have remained forever in an unrealized plenitude?” DeathPeaceExistencePessimismAntinatalismAntinatalist Book:The Trouble with Being Born Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“If we did not bear the stigmata of life, how easy it would be to steal away, and how well everything would go by itself!” LifePessimismAntinatalismStigmata Book:The Trouble with Being Born Source: The Trouble with Being Born