Quotes About Pessimism

Screw humanity. I don't give the whole stinking bunch of us more than a couple of generations and good riddance. The universe is better off without us.

Ninety-five percent of the people I deal with are shitbags who think the world is their personal litter box. I can't do them any good, and they don't want me to.

Don, far from an optimist himself, thought that Feldstein's outlook was too dark.

the hawks and doves alike exuded pessimism.

He that best understands the world, least likes it.

He that lives upon hopes will die fasting.

He that best understands the world, least likes it. - Benjamin Franklin, 1753

There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin.

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.

The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Indeed, I think it must be more agreeable, must have a more real savor, than optimism--from the way in which pessimists abandon themselves to it.

There's always hope, and there's always despair.

I'm a hopeful cynic.

Smile, it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen

I have been told I always look at the dark underbelly of tomorrow. Possibly. You're less likely to be disappointed that way.

Mówiono mi ju?, ?e zawsze spoglÄ…dam w czarne podbrzusze dnia jutrzejszego. By? mo?e. W ten sposób jest siÄ™ mniej nara?onym na rozczarowania.

Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism.

Wenn man einem Mann zeigt, wie nichtig seine Hoffnung und sein Hoffen war, tötet man den hellen bejahenden Teil in ihm, der geliebt werden möchte.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

I am apoplectic that people no longer expect progress because for so long they have worn the clothes of decline.

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.