Ebook: Elpis

A collection (with brief introductory remarks) of writings by pessimists and pessimist sympathizers... Pratt, Bataille, Zapfe, Noys, Cioran, Leopardi, Popa, and Flueres explore the ramifications of, if not believing that things will get worse, then at least certainly not believing that things will get better.
"Healthy thinking avoids morbidity and tries to be optimistic but this doesn't matter too much, the morbidity is in the world itself-we may abandon morbidity but morbidity is not abandoning us."
"The power of laughter is terrible and awful: anyone who has the courage to laugh is master over others, in the same way as anyone who has the courage to die."