Quotes About Pessimism

There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won't happen.

Madness, on the other hand, most certainly can, and often does, kill love through its mistrustfulness, unrelenting pessimism, discontents, erratic behavior, and, especially, through its savage moods. The sadder, sleepier, slower, and less volatile depressions are more intuitively understood and more easily taken in stride. A quiet melancholy is neither threatening nor beyond ordinary comprehension; an angry, violent, vexatious despair is both.

No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable. Madness, on the other hand, most certainly can, and often does, kill love through its mistrustfulness, unrelenting pessimism, discontents, erratic behavior, and, especially, through its savage moods. The

Today's world is too foul a place for fine and noble instincts.

I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.

People are no damn good.

Though we live in an era of relative peace and comfort, we have settled into a mood of pessimism about the long-term future, fearful that our superpower nation is somehow rotting from within.

Most Americans express more hope for their own prospects than for their children's—or the nation's

Winston Churchill once quipped, "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." He went on to say, "I am an optimist. It does not seem much use being anything else." Trust

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

You have no values. With you it's all nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.

I don't believe in the after life, although I'm bringing a change of underwear.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

let go of the real source of our unhappiness: our own self-obsession. Stress, loneliness, pessimism, financial worries, and unhappy relationships all have one thing in common: they're all about "me".

I am going to the bad place, as is my wont.

People doom and damn themselves with their own perverse and pessimistic beliefs about reality.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

he thought that human beings are, by and large, rather nasty. They can rarely be bothered to help one another, he noted, but are quick to seize any opportunity to do each other down.9 Moreover there was a bias in the world of which he had become acutely aware: most people were ignorant, and nothing provoked the hostility of the ignorant as much as people who knew more than they did.10 Although

Hope springs eternal, unfortunately it springs from a well poisoned with Jim Jones' Kool Aid

The content of the glass is far more important than whether it is half full or half empty

Murphy's Law states that, "If anything will go wrong, it will".Positive side of this law is, "If anything good can happen, it definitely will happen

For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it.