Quotes About Pessimism

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

What's the good of thinking of misery when you're already miserable? That's stupid!

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason.

The Cold War liberal even discovered the political utility of a civil religion. He was prepared to put aside the secularism and rationalism that, historically, had been among liberalism's defining elements and to seek validation for liberal anticommunism abroad and at home by appealing to theology, most notably that of Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism. Niebuhr was notoriously pessimistic, subscribing to a view that stressed the dark side of human nature.

People suck. (Nero)

You don't believe in love, do you? - I think it exists. I just don't think it will ever exist for me.

Great, just great. The only thing to make him a worse asshole would be to kick a puppy.' (Nathan)

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

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

When you know that bad things aren't so terrible and good things aren't so terrific, you can be quietly grateful for whatever occurs. Balance is neither pessimism nor optimism.

One waxes pessimistic? Not so much Ã¢â'¬Â¦ There is a pessimism about land which, after it has been with you a long time, becomes merely factual. Men increase; country suffers. Though I sign up with organizations that oppose the process, I sign without great hope.… Islands of wildlife and native flora may be saved, as they should be, but the big, sloppy, rich, teeming spraddle will go. It always has.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

Cynicism is like gastro: it goes through your whole system and makes you shitty.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

Even if Tellun himself bounded in here with party hats, I'm not sure there would be any reason to celebrate.

I don't suppose you know where in Hell we're going?" "Not Hell," Puck said. "Well, perhaps Hell, but I think it unlikely.

The more I see of the world, the less inclined I am to think well of it.

Insufficient nourishment in the early morning leads to pessimism and doubts.

All of her news was bad and so her talk was punctuated with "of course" and "naturally.

Mrs Downs, a large sad lady who described herself, to Rupert's delight, as bulky but fragile, now came four mornings a week to clean the house. She was one of those people who habitually looked on the black side of everything with a cheerfulness that bordered upon the macabre.

It was always sad, the way the world was going. And always a new age dawning.