We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone.

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them.

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.