Quotes from Eugene Thacker

Voltaire once described optimism as "a cruel philosophy with a consoling name," which immediately suggests what pessimism might be: a consoling philosophy with a cruel name.

T]he devastating possibility that "wasting time" and "passing time" amount to the same thing.

One senses that for Schopenhauer, the world does exist, and it's horrible, and there's not much one can do about it.