Quotes About Pessimism

You're a glass-half-empty kind of guy, sir, aren't you? I don't even acknowledge the existence of the glass, son.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?

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Cynicism is too easy, and it gets you nowhere.

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain wilful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?

This way and stop looking so positive: optimism doesn't fit a prisoner's profile. Poe obediently lowered his head and adopted as morose an expression as possible.

possible. He has this attitude that nothing bad can happen to him, that he is protected in some way. I never have that feeling. Instead, I am certain my death is waiting for me around the next bend in the road.

He doubted there was much of a future for him after this.

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

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

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

It's about ten times the size of the Bible — and unlike the Bible, contains no good news.

Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Environmentalists are so dreary.