AntiNatalist

The evolution of consciousness—parent of all horrors. - Ligotti #antinatalism

The knowledge that life is worthless is the flower of all human wisdom. - Mainländer

After systematically interpreting my emotions are material processes for at least a year and a half, the cause of life simply lost its cogency. I became unable to spontaneously believe anything. - Mitchell Heisman (Suicide Note)

I never thought I was doing anyone a favor by having children. With people as cruel to each other as they are, it’s a terrible proposition. The best of lives are sad and tragic. The best of them. My general conclusion is that it’s not a nice thing to do - Woody Allen

"Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake." - David Benatar #antinatalism #davidbenatar #nihilism

Think of the hubris it must take to yank a soul out of non existence into this... meat, to force a life into this... thresher. That's... so my daughter, she spared me the sin of being a father - Rust Cole #antinatalism #rustcole #truedetective #nihilism

These children, whom I did not bring into existence, if they only knew what luck they owe me! - Emile Cioran #antinatalism #emilecioran #nihilism

“Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone.” - Thomas Ligotti

I gave peace to my children, for they are in the bliss of nonexistence which surpasses all the pleasures of this world - Reynold Alleyne Nicholson #antinatalism #nihilism

Schopenhauer promises nothing but extinction for the individualfollowing the postmortem recall of his “true nature” as a tiny parcel of the personless andever-roiling Will. - Thomas Ligotti #antinatalism #schopenhauer #nihilism #thomasligotti

We will suffer ill-health at some stage during our lives. Often the suffering is excruciating, even if it is in our final days. Some are condemned by nature to years of frailty. We all face death - David Benatar #antinatalism #nihilism #davidbenatar

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, The best would be never to have been born at all. - Heinrich Heine #antinatalism #nihilism #heinrichheine

Nihilism represents the ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and ideals - Friedrich Nietzsche #nihilism #antinatalism #mitchellheisman #neitzsche

All reality is the expression of a unified, unchanging force. This force and its movement are monstrous in nature, resulting in a universe of indiscriminate butchery and mutual slaughter among its individuated parts. - Bahsen

Emotions and instincts are the product of evolutionary adaptations that happened to be adaptive for generations of ancestors. - Charles Darwin