Cioran, Schonpenhauer, Nietzche...

[JoseM]

What's you take on this philosophers and how do you think some aspects of pessimism as a philosophy can help improve your life?

Fernando Savater once referred to Cioran's philosophy as a "pessimistic optimism".

[askdfjnak]

We're all going to die.

What a relief.

[Will Bigger]

The only philosopher here I am familiar with is Nietzche, who I believe helped to come up with existentialism. So, basically, all existentialism says is that there isn't a point to life; in no context would I call that pessimism. I mean, if there was a purpose, it would be completely arbitrary.

[Pelin]

I can't see how Nietzsche is pessimistic as well. Even God is Dead isn't pessimistic to me, it opens the path for non-institutionalized(is that a word?) spirituality.

 Let me share a small piece of writing from him: 

"For the New Year—I still live, I still think; I must still live, for I must still think. Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum. To-day everyone takes the liberty of expressing his wish and his favorite thought: well, I also mean to tell what I have wished for myself today, and what thought first crossed my mind this year,—a thought which ought to be the basis, the pledge and the sweetening of all my future life! I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful:—I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers." 

I only know Schopenhaur on his views on solitude, yes he is pessimistic with regards to society, I think he is closer to existentialism.

About Cioran I must do my research