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The Tedium Lies

Book by Jacob H. Kyle · 4 quotes · Pessimism, Nihilism, Existentialism

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“If I am seen to be strong it is because I shall be the first to fall. What courage you sample in my visage is only determinable in defiance for which my ambitions differ entirely. What right have I to speak for those whose suffering exceeds my past, whose fates were obliterated and will ape no more? Shall I expect to inherit this latent expansion for the sort we safely cannot conceive who do not yet suffer emptily? Late morning in a general practice waiting room, do they sleep only of exhaustion?”

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“The products and processes of nature which functionally disseminate life are each founded by a pledge of pain to be endured. Every good, every sigh is a distraction allaying weakness and death. Nature is a malformed vermin, a parasite burrowing audaciously the aches of a comatose universe.”

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“There is no superstition beheld anywhere in the universe’s haphazard amalgam, no doctrine or spiritual purpose to climb or better inquire, no valid reason unearthed that existence ought to precede Nothingness.”

Religion Universe Existence Atheism Existentialism Pessimism Nothingness Nothing Nihilism Superstition

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“Mankind is a troupe in the fallibility of evolution and everything at his feet a prop, a false world made real enough to function without attainment or compensation of the genuine.”

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