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As their numbers tapered off, these dead-enders of our species could be the most privileged individuals in history and share with one another material comforts once held in trust only for the well-born or moneygetting classes of the world. Since personal economic gain would be passé as a motive for the new humanity, there would be only one defensible incitement to work: to see one another through to the finish, a project that would keep everyone busy and not just staring into space while they waited for the end. There might even be bright smiles exchanged among these selfless benefactors of those who would never be forced to exist.

- Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror, Hippocampus Press, New York 2010, pages 58-59 -

Perhaps the greatest strike against philosophical pessimism is that its only theme is human suffering. This is the last item on the list of our species’ obsessions and detracts from everything that matters to us, such as the Good, the Beautiful, and a Sparking Clean Toilet Bowl. For the pessimist, everything considered in isolation from human suffering or any cognition that does not have as its motive the origins, nature, and elimination of human suffering is at base recreational, whether it takes the form of conceptual probing or physical action in the world - for example, delving into game theory or traveling in outer space, respectively. And by “human suffering,” the pessimist is not thinking of particular sufferings and their relief, but of suffering itself. Remedies may be discovered for certain diseases and sociopolitical barbarities may be amended. But those are only stopgaps. Human suffering will remain insoluble as long as human beings exist. The one truly effective solution for suffering is that spoken of in Zapffe’s „Last Messiah”. It may not be a welcome solution for a stopgap world, but it would forever put an end to suffering, should we ever care to do so. The pessimist’s credo, or one of them, is that nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone. Although our selves may be illusory creations of consciousness, our pain is nonetheless real.

- Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror, Hippocampus Press, New York 2010, page 63 -

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

- Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies In Pessimism, On the Sufferings of the World, Cosimo, Inc., New York 2007, page 8 -

Some of the church fathers have taught that even marital cohabitation should only be allowed when it occurs merely for the sake of the procreation of children, it attributes this view to the Pythagoreans. This is, however, strictly speaking, incorrect. For if the coitus be no longer desired for its own sake, the negation of the Will-to-Live has already appeared, and the propagation of the human race is then superfluous and senseless, inasmuch as its purpose is already attained. Besides, without any subjective passion, without lust and physical pressure, with sheer deliberation, and the cold blooded purpose to place a human being in the world merely in order that he should be there this would be such a very questionable moral action that few would take it upon themselves; one might even say of it indeed that it stood in the same relation to generation from the mere sexual impulse as a cold-blooded deliberate murder does to a death-stroke given in anger.

- Arthur Schopenhauer, Selected Essays of Schopenhauer, G. Bell and Sons, London 1926, Contributions to the Doctrine of the Affirmation and Nega-tion of the Will-to-live, page 269 -

I tell myself: Reluctance to think to the end
Is lifesaving for the living. Could lucid consciousness
Bear everything that in every minute,
Simultaneously, occurs on the earth?
Not to harm. Stop eating fish and meat.
Let oneself be castrated, like Tiny, a cat innocent
Of the drownings of kittens every day in our city.

The Cathari were right: Avoid the sin of conception
(For either you kill your seed and will be tormented by conscience
Or you will be responsible for a life of pain).

- Czeslaw Milosz, Pająk, Dalsze okolice, Znak, Kraków 1991 -

Once I saw on TV a cemetery of unborn babies, with little graves on which Japanese women lit candles and laid flowers. I put myself for a moment in the place of one of them who was leaning over to put down a spray of chrysanthemums.
- My son, you were conceived in love, that’s all I will ever know about you.
You might have heard from me about the terror of life on earth, but you were spared.
About how we are visited by misfortune and cannot understand why we, who are unique, must be struck like the others.
Perhaps you would have had a life like mine and, clenching your teeth, would have borne your fate for years, for one has to.
Suffering, I thought that perhaps you, my son, had inherited my accursed tenacity and capacity for self-delusion.
So then I felt relief, saying to myself that at least you were safe.
In non-being as in a cradle or a cocoon of silk.
Who would you have been? Every day I would have trembled to know what was winning in you: a portent of greatness or of defeat – one tiny grain is enough to tip the balance.
Either people’s gratitude and respect or an embittered man’s four walls.
No, I am certain you would have been powerful and brave, as all those are who are begotten by love.
I made a decision and I know that was how it had to be, and I do not blame anyone.
When I bite a peach, when I look at the rising moon, when I rejoice at the sight of young cedar groves on the mountains, I taste everything in your stead, in your name.

- Czeslaw Milosz, Yokimura, Piesek przydrożny, Znak, Kraków 1997 -