Quotes About Pessimism

Pessimists thought this shutdown would kill baseball entirely. It did not. But it does represent the point where baseball's past became more desirable than baseball's future, an inversion that would never really reverse itself.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.

Way she sees it, people fall into one of two categories: those who think their death is imminent, and those who figure they have long, healthy lives ahead of them. Nobody ever thinks it's somewhere in-between.

in the days when the world begins to bleach and shrivel, and the sun is blotched with death. Socialist and Individualist, they'll all be a little dirt lodged deep in the granite wrinkles of the globe's countenance.

Is there any good news?' Tesla said. Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?

It seemed to me that a solution must be found. Here, my natural optimism was to my advantage. For when I read Sartre or Camus or Graham Greene, I experienced a temperamental rejection of their pessimism. I suspected that their ultimate picture might be distorted by a certain self-pity or lack of discipline—or, in the case of Greene, by a certain congenital lack of vitality. I suspected that if the problem left them defeated, it was because they had not attacked it hard enough.

Avevo letto da qualche parte la parola 'nichilismo' e a scuola chiesi al mio insegnante di inglese cosa significasse. Significa non credere in niente mi rispose, e subito seppi di aver trovato un nome per il mio stato d'animo. Non era solo mancanza di qualcosa in cui credere, era non credere, di fatto, in niente.

He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.

Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day.

Ä°nsanlar doÄŸduklar? zaman iyidir ama dünya onlar? kötüleÅŸtirir. Dünya zaten hep kötüdür ve her gün daha da kötü bir yer hâline gelir.

Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.

Optimism skipped out on the rent a while back, but the cynic in the penthouse won't leave until led out by marshals.

An optimist is a braver cynic.

And if there is a fundamental difference between the way people perceived the world around them in the past and the way they perceive it at present, then it is perhaps best identified as follows: in the past, activism was coupled with optimism, while today activism requires pessimism.

All things by nature are ready to get worse

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit; she knew that.

If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.