Quotes About Pessimism

Never trust someone who isn't miserable at least half the time. That's my motto.

Hasta el ámbito académico, que uno podía considerar un reducto seguro para los gruñones y misántropos, está empezando a sufrir las incursiones del pensamiento positivo.

Something in his nature just did not expect good things in store.

The trick was to assume the worst and act accordingly.

Someday, if your life is long and your thinking machinery stays in gear, you'll live to remember the last good thing that ever happened to you. That's not pessimism talking, just logic.

as afirmações dos cínicos parecem sempre mais plausíveis do que as dos optimistas incorrigíveis.

We poor humans are wired up to always think the worst is gonna happen because it so rarely does.

fallaciously pessimistic.

The ignorance is measurable. Pollsters repeatedly find that while people tend to be too optimistic about their own lives, they are too pessimistic about their societies. For instance, in most years between 1992 and 2015, an era that criminologists call the Great American Crime Decline, a majority of Americans believed that crime was rising.

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

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

It is for such reasons that a whole generation of social psychologists recommended "positive illusions" as the only reliable route to mental health.69 Their credo? Let a lie be your umbrella. A more dismal, wretched, pessimistic philosophy can hardly be imagined: things are so terrible that only delusion can save you.

Someone with experience knows that people are capable of deception and willing to deceive. That knowledge brings with it an arguably justified pessimism about human nature, personal and otherwise, but it also opens the door to another kind of faith in humanity: one based on courage, rather than naivete.

For such individuals, the world of experience is insufficient and evil—so to hell with everything!

Someone with experience knows that people are capable of deception and willing to deceive. That knowledge brings with it an arguably justified pessimism about human nature, personal and otherwise, but it also opens the door to another kind of faith in humanity: one based on courage, rather than naivete. I will trust you—I will extend my hand to you—despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me.

Certain people just have a look about them—you can spot them here and there, at gas stations and in checkout lines—like they fully expect to have a shitty day, and if it hasn't happened yet, by golly, they'll make sure they're disappointed before the sun goes down.

Referring to my mental process as "thinking" was probably a stretch. It felt more like a broken record, and the part it kept skipping back to was the part where the world sucked, I sucked, and I was an idiot for thinking things would ever get any better.

El anochecer siempre era una hora pésima par alas decisiones. la llegada de la noche esparcía sombras por doquiera, y los ánimos se hundían, preñados de pesimismo.

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.

You said electronic lock. I didn't know it was a TL-30X6." "I don't like your tone, Merlin. You sound very pessimistic. Maybe even defeatist." "Heller, listen to me. I brought my StrongArm safe cracker diamond-core drill bits, okay? But drilling through one of these, that's a five-hour job at least. That mother's made from inch-and-a-half-thick steel and cobalt-carbide matrix hardplate, okay?" "If you say so.

To be honest, the future doesn't look too bright. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out. Human civilization is in 'decline.' Some people even say it's 'collapsing.

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