Quotes About Pessimism

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

I'm sour at times.

I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.'

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

The good is not as good as the absence of bad.

I, for one, don't forget a thing. I just sit around waiting for something worse.

We're all screwed, says our morale officer

We're all screwed," says our morale officer.

We have just entered the worst of all possible worlds.

Often the best parts of life were when you weren't doing anything at all, just mulling it over, chewing on it. I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean? And optimistic pessimism.

Often the best parts of life were when you weren't doing anything at all, just mulling it over, chewing on it. I mean, say you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it a sense. You know what I mean? An optimistic pessimism.

If I bet on Humanity I'd never cash a ticket.

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

Casi siempre lo mejor de la vida consistía en no hacer nada en absoluto, en pasar el rato reflexionando, rumiando sobre ello. Quiero decir que pongamos que uno comprende que todo es absurdo, entones no puede ser tan absurdo porque uno es consciente de que es absurdo y la conciencia de ellos es lo que le otorga sentido. ¿Me entienden? Es un pesimismo optimista.

CzÄ™sto najlepsze chwile w ?yciu to te, kiedy nic nie robisz, tylko zastanawiasz siÄ™ nad swoim istnieniem, kontemplujesz ró?ne sprawy. I tak kiedy na przykÅ'ad mówisz, ?e wszystko nie ma sensu, to nie mo?e do koÅ"ca nie mie? sensu, bo przecie? jesteÅ› Å›wiadom, ?e nie ma sensu, a twoja Å›wiadomo?? braku sensu nadaje temu jakiÅ› sens. Rozumiecie, o co mi chodzi? Optymistyczny pesymizm.

Often the best parts of life were when you weren't doing anything at all, just mulling it over, chewing on it. I mean, say that you figure out that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean? An optimistic pessimism.

I lived most of my life with a Charlie Brown or Murphy's Law attitude that said, "It's normal for things to go wrong, so if anything goes right, it must be a mistake.

research has shown that we have a remarkable ability to think and feel our way into happier or more depressed states, regardless of external reality, and you can train yourself to live in either an optimistic or a pessimistic frame of mind regardless of your external circumstances.

every day was bad news and worse than the one before it, and that was all you could expect from life.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.

You know people like this, right? People who are incapable of enjoying anything.