Quotes About Pessimism

Pessimism is a sign of decay, optimism is a sign of superficiality; tragic optimism is the mood of the strong man who seeks intensity and extent of experience, even at the cost of woe, and is delighted to find that strife is the law of life.

Men look to love and life for everything; they receive a little less than that; they imagine that they have received nothing: these are the three stages of the pessimist.

The average person found himself forced to choose between a scientific priesthood mumbling unintelligible pessimism, and a theological priesthood mumbling incredible hopes. ?In this situation

What he was now seeing was the street lonely, savage, and cool. That was it: cool; he was thinking, saying aloud to himself sometimes, "I better move. I better get away from here." But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

O God! What a misfortune to be born! Born like a mushroom, doubtless between an evening and a morning

Sometimes, we are compelled by circumstances to interact with people who are unwholesome. Some of these people are extremely pessimistic or depressive. Although they may not be particularly negative towards you, the constant emission of pessimistic or depressive energy from them can contaminate you.

Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Optimismus ist nur ein Mangel an Information.

There are two kinds of people: Those who think they can, and those who think they can't, and they're both right.

We owe pandemonium to Milton's Paradise Lost (where it is 'the high Capital of Satan and his Peers'), diplomacy to Edmund Burke, and pessimism to Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Life is a dead-end street.

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

While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.

When I doubted, there was hope; but now there is no hope and even so I doubt everything.

Everything presents itself to me, in the coarsest, most loathsome light.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all — he's walking on them.

Yes, I do read books but only for one purpose: to learn how to hate man and to hold him in contempt.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

Fuck it, it was stupid. Theories about life were always bullshit.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.