Pessimism Quotes

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements...

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliev...

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing...

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but loca...

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and...

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what drea...

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no j...

If there is anything in the life of any culture or period that gives good grounds for alarm, it is t...

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice," Amos liked to say. "Once whe...

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once whe...

Why is it that all individuals today, at least all who are socially conscious, are in one way or ano...

Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.

SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: … But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be...

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's alwa...

The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimi...

Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

– The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth’s is a pond and a backwater.– The sign of doo...

Another flaw of the system is the fact that various danger fronts often require very different firma...

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories...

We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimis...

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it...

Pessimism is a very easy way out when you’re considering what life really is, because pessimism is a...

If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn...

POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future.

In my heart's most secret place,I pity them as angels do.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn any...

When things come to the worst they generally mend.

The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wrec...

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

No more worlds like this / No more days like that

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

While horror may make us squirm or quake, it will not make us cry at the pity of things. The vampire...

So it is that supernatural horror is the product of a profoundly divided species of being. It is not...

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then ...

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inerti...

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets...

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless ...

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over ...

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that...

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom...

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe...

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he w...

What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only...

In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, ...

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who...

There is nothing to be got in the world anywhere; privation and pain pervade it, and boredom lies in...

If you want a safe compass to guide you through life, and to banish all doubt as to the right way of...

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continu...

However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way o...

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escap...

One day you're waiting for the sky to fallThe next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance o...

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and ey...

There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old frien...

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you thi...

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

See the moon? It hates us.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pess...

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the ad...

These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody c...

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but...

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to ac...