Mainländer on Boredom

Drummond on Happiness

Dostoevsky's Ivan on Human Cruelty

Milton's Adam on Life

Szasz on Happiness

Darwin on God and Suffering

Lichtenberg on Death

Proust on Disillusionment

Jean Paul on Death and Sleep

Leopardi's Experiment

Housman on Focusing on Life’s Ills

Plümacher on the Problem of Existence

Benatar on Procreation and Suffering

Schopenhauer on the Nature of Pain and Well-Being

Cicero on Life

De Lazari-Radek and Singer on Suffering and Happiness

Hume on God and Evil

Frijda on Pleasure-Pain Asymmetry

Prior's Solomon on Hope

Plato's Socrates on Illusory Pleasures

Crisp on the Risk in Being Alive

Poe on the Fragility of Love

Bayle's Conclusion Regarding Goods and Evils

Pinker on Asymmetries Between Bad and Good

Leopardi on the Only Enviable Condition

Schopenhauer on Society

Kant on a Kind of Misanthropy

Adamson on Hegesias

Warhol on Work

Benatar's 'Pro-Death' View of Abortion