"Happy slaves are the greatest enemies of freedom."

"The kindest and best people in the world are pessimists. May the neo-gods preserve us from the smirking fools or rascals that we call optimists."

"What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation."

"It may be that in a state of nature, since it is a state of war, the life of man is solitary, nasty, brutish, and short, but in our present state of mediocrity, it is cowardly, shallow, tedious, banal, and uselessly drawn out."

"Achievement: The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

Decide: To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Longevity: Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Mausoleum: The final and funniest folly of the rich.

Optimism: The doctrine, or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof -- an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Pessimism: A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

Pleasure: The least hateful form of dejection.

Self-esteem: An erroneous appraisal."

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

"If we assume that every human being born into this world has a "right to life," then it logically follows that every human being has a right to end their life (or a "right to die"). Because death is a part of life, a person's right to life logically assumes a right to not have that life. Thus, any law upholding a person's right to life has inherent within that same law a person's right to die, otherwise it would not be a right to life in the true sense of the term."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

"That messy thing called 'mind' has created many destructive things. By far the most destructive of them all is God."

"There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry."

"This is the tragedy: consciousness has forced us into striving to be something other than we are--hunks of spoiling flesh on hardening bones."

"It was as if he were detached, a lonely, floating brain that looked out upon a thing it could not understand nor could ever try to understand; as if he might even be afraid of understanding it - a thing of mystery and delight so long as he retained an ignorance of it, but something fearsome and altogether overpowering once the ignorance had gone."

I am nothing but the difference in the images reflecting back from the faces of others. A par excellence loner, an observer. I am but the ever-moving focal point of intertwining stories.

I am a quasi nihilist, pessimistic, existentialist atheist. Politically left-leaning yet hardcore individualist (left-libertarian). I consider myself being modern (in the sense as it is used in literary historiography) as opposed to post-modern and human, all too human.

Some atheists automatically assume the existence of a community of atheists with shared values and goals and tend to believe that whoever designate themselves as atheists are already part of that community. I must digress.
Being a non-believer in itself does not determine what other philosophies one subscribes to, nor does it automatically shed light on the kind of intellectual journey one took to arrive at being an atheist.
While some aspects of the usual narrative of naturalism, humanism, liberalism and rationalism reverberate with my own world-view, I have enough diverging ideas as to in no way be or wish to be included or representative of those intellectual currents.
My atheism developed based on my studies in philosophy, sociology and psychology more than based on biology, natural sciences or politics. Accordingly I must set myself apart from trends that try to portray atheists as being part of some big and happy family. For me atheism is a personal matter in need of strictly personal deliberations in order to deal with all its effects on one's life and in order for it to be a genuine result of personal development. I do not believe that atheism enables one to live a happier, more fulfilling life or that it brings existential consolation, joy and everything else people are force-fed nowadays to believe they need. For those aims I would rather recommend the use of available recreational substances.
Atheism for me always was and is a conclusion brought forth both by reason and personal experience (or lack of it thereof), and it carries along a somber, tragic dismantlement of a world where everything has a well defined universal place, a goal, a plan, a resolution, or universal and objective meaning. Quite the contrary, for me atheism brings the loss of all the above and it offers an unavoidable and psychologically challenging confrontation with one's own mortality, contingency and it offers the realization of the utter absurdity of existence. Staying in disbelief of a sentient universe is for me not due to the greater joys it confers but due to my grim determination to stick to the inner consistency of my own realizations and to what I believe its the sad but true state of affairs. Being an atheist is a tragic but also somewhat heroic fidelity to reality despite that as a result one may find being in a less hospitable world than before. As becoming who I am today and not only as an atheist but as a whole was a personal and individually fought, long journey, I intend to stay on an individual path unconditioned or unrestricted by potential ideological tenets some think are inherently part of being someone who lacks belief in the supernatural.