Quotes About Pessimism

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

It is true, I do expect bad things rather than good, and even when they are good I worry about when they will stop being good.

He didn't seem like somebody you'd want to invite to a party unless you'd already given up on it.

It didn't and doesn't turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It's only a matter of how long you can live with it.

My improved affect did not in any way sway me from the philosophical conviction that life, at its height and at its depth, basically sucks.

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

I'm not the most positive person.

I can't be around someone who is negative because I am such a positive person. If you are mean, then we don't speak.

If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side.

We all deal with our inner pessimist. We just try to find as much positivity as we can find.

Critics are just what they are. They're going to pick at the positivity of things.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

I'm an old cynic.

Personally, I'm such a cynic.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.

England's just very cynical.

I have a big cynical side to me.

I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but probably not... I was a really cynical child.

Boxing fans are a very cynical bunch.