The opposite thing is beautiful if it is in the right time. People understand time differently. Some people see time as cyclical. You are born, you grow, marry, have children, grow old and die. Others have a growth or an assent of man view that we have evolved and need to keep going.
Pessimistic humanism says that life is wave after wave of one emergency after another.
Ecclesiastes has a pendulum sense about it, forward and back. God has placed this sense of eternity in our hearts. This knowledge is an intuitive knowledge. We know God because God has made us, thus giving us a sense of value and judgment from within. This judgment from inside is God's burden for us.