Poetry & Art

I’ve found some pessimistic quotes which I would like to share. Enjoy.

“That human life must be some kind of mistake
is sufficiently proved by the simple observation
that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy;
that their satisfaction achieves nothing
but a painless condition
in which he is only given over to boredom . . .”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“Life is like an onion:
you peel off layer after layer
and then you find there is nothing in it.”
– James Gibbons Huneker

“It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us;
once we are sober we cannot help seeing