“Our pursuit of happiness is an addiction to us and a cancer to our planet.”
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Famous Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes
“Like spirituality, insanity frees us from the addiction to happiness.”
“Our being happy eventually irritates our mind into finding an excuse for us to be unhappy.”
“We are hurried, not by what is happening, but by what we are desiring.”
“Some people are each bored to death by the unchallengingness of their life.”
“To live is to owe life to die.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“No one is too old to live another day, or too young to die today.”
“He that does good to another does good mainly, or even only, for himself.”
“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”
“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”
“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“To be pained by someone’s death is to make their death about you.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”
“No matter how long you are going to live, you are going to die now.”
“Living is the outside of dying.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“Some of the things we are trying to pray away were caused by some of our answered prayers.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“It is doubly foolish to underuse what you have overpaid for.”
“Disease intensifies narcissism, especially if it is terminal.”
“We sometimes run for our life to our death.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”
“What is happening is life’s way of telling us what should be happening.”