Is Giacomo Leopardi the most depressed and depressive writer in the Western canon?
Compared to him Schopenhauer is a wishy washy happy chad.
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>>9131310
That's literally Kierkegaard explaining why you should be clearly grounded in a higher power. It's like a bunch of brainlets crying and one person is like 'this is why I would cry if I were a brainlet'
>>9131310
>What is life? The journey of a sick cripple carrying an enormous load on his back across steep mountains and impossibly bleak, barren, unforgiving lands through snow, frost, rain, wind, and scorching heat, walking days and nights on end to arrive at some precipice or ditch into which he’s fated to fall.
Jesus Christ.
>>9131302
I was under the impression that Rimbaud and Sylvia Plath takes the cake for depressed, and Marquez depressive, if only for the life long pain he inflicts on his protagonists.
>>9131310
Did Lanza actually write that? If so, all is forgiven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLHCuzW3-uA
>>9131358
Sounds like shit.