Quotes About Pessimism

The Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno wrote, "It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

The wish to fix people reflects pessimism about their condition and optimism about the method of repair.

But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.

The longer I do this job, the less I like people. The species, of course," he adds grimly. "There are individuals I like just fine.

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

Look," he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst." If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed," I pointed out. Yeah, but who lives like that?

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.

It's interesting said Jack. What is? You believe in God. he said. You just don't believe that God is good.

Where Annie came from, one assumed the worst and worked backwards from there.

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

Cynicism was bread and meat to everyone. And irony, too. Maybe it couldn't be helped. It was probably even necessary.

Whoever takes a gloomy view regards this world as a kind of hell and is accordingly concerned only with procuring for himself a small fireproof room.

Pessimism is often a failure of imagination.

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me's no joke.

misanthropy.

Accentuate the positive - eliminate the negative. And only the negative.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?" said David. "I don't have much faith in anything," Roland replied. "Not even in myself.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.

We are a rugged species, up for anything the universe can throw at us; and as the great gloominaries knew, we will be immeasurably better prepared for nasty surprises if we approach the universe realistically — pessimistically — than if we continue to peer out at our surroundings through a distorting, rose-colored prism of wish-fulfillment fantasy.

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.