Quotes About Pessimism

Only fools are positive.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

Smile! Tom orrow will be worse!

If something bad can happen, it will.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Cynicism has an energetic vampirism of banality.

Science plays the board game Doctor, they know that the human body is the main key to the secrets of the universe and existence itself, but immortality will give the most important secret of life, and it will tell you that over time a person does not value anything, he is just a spectator and a consumer with popcorn which symbolizes values, for the pessimist it is salty; for the optimist, sweet-caramel hedonism.

According to different points of view. To the pessimist: Enemies are everywhere, waiting to ambush you. For the optimist: friends are everywhere, waiting to embrace you.

For the pessimist, the new baby in the womb is already dead before he even sees the world. For, a new life means that a new death is approaching.

Il vaut mieux être optimiste, de toute façon, car les pessimistes souffrent à deux reprises : d'abord à l'avance, puis quand le malheur arrive.

I start out by believing the worst

Acceptance doesn't mean masochistic pessimism, but joyful support of and participation in the great cosmic drama.

Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.

always expect the worst because in the end you wont be disappointed...

The pessimists prophesy a future of rubble, but the optimistic prophets are even more horrifying when they proclaim the future city where baseness and boredom dwell, in intact beehives.

With good humor and pessimism it is not possible to be either wrong or bored.

Whereas contemporaries read only the optimist with enthusiasm, posterity rereads the pessimist with admiration.

The modern Christian feels professionally obligated to act jovially and jokingly, to show his teeth in a cheerful grin, to profess a slavering friendliness, in order to prove to the unbeliever that Christianity is not a "somber" religion, a "pessimistic" doctrine, an "ascetic" morality. The progressive Christian shakes our hand with the wide grin of a politician running for office.

Optimisim is a fairly modern invention. — Classical literature lacks this vulgar sentiment.

Where the average person appreciates the beauty of surf and waves, Gus, an engineer, sees only practical design. Gravity, plus ocean current, plus wind. Poetry to the common man is a unicorn viewed from the corner of an eye—an unexpected glimpse of the intangible. To an engineer, only the ingenuity of pragmatic solutions is poetic. Function over form. It's not a question of optimism or pessimism, a glass half full or half empty. To an engineer, the glass is simply too big.

To an engineer, only the ingenuity of pragmatic solutions is poetic. Function over form. It's not a question of optimism or pessimism, a glass half full or half empty. To an engineer, the glass is simply too big.

I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me.

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

En el fondo, la valentía es optimismo. Yo no era optimista porque no era valiente.