Quotes About Pessimism

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

Je me suis trompé jusqu'ici; en voilà un qui est plus méchant. »

I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed)

As Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg said in 2017, "Optimists tend to be successful, and pessimists tend to be right. . . . If you think that something's going to be terrible and it's going to fail, then you're going to look for the data points that prove you right. And you'll find them. That's what pessimists do. . . . But if you think that something is possible, then you're going to try to find a way to make it work.

I find pleasure in cynicism, the habit is growing. Let it grow, it is a fine protection against the world.

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom.

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

The opposite of getting your hopes up is not harboring any,

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception.

It's hard. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's intoxicatingly liberating.

I think you spend your life expecting to be disappointed, so when someone hurts you just a tiny bit, you can say: there I was right all along...You like being right.

Anxiety Girl, able to jump to the worst conclusion in a single bound!

God save me from idealists.

Thomas grunted. Might have been smarter for them to have left you alone. Now you know something. I made an exasperated sound. Yes. Those fools. By trying to kill me, they've revealed their very souls. I have them now. Thomas gave me a steady look. Being Mab's bitch has made you a pessimist. I am not a pessimist, I said loftily. Though that can't last. That made Thomas grin. Nice. Thank you.

Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair.

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

You can be a pessimist and say Life sucks or you can be a optimist and says Life gets better.

Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny.

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

Disarming an idealist was easy

Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.

And the diseases from which we civilized people suffer most are melancholy and pessimism. So I, for instance, who can count so many years of my life during which I lost any inclination to laugh - leaving aside whether or not this was my own fault - I, for one, feel the need for a really good laugh above all else. I've found it in Guy de Maupassant, and there are others - Rabelais among the older writers