Pessimism Quotes

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.

Anonymous

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

When things come to the worst they generally mend.

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.

When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'

John A. Macdonald

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

William Wordsworth

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Voltaire

When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist.

Richard Jeffries

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.

Anonymous

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

When things come to the worst they generally mend.

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.

When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'

John A. Macdonald

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

William Wordsworth

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Voltaire

When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist.

Richard Jeffries

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

The optimist is a pessimist with a plan

Bangambiki Habyarimana

When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things went bad and change something!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.

If you try to convert someone, it will never be toeffect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself,to be sure he is exposed to the same ordeals andendures them with the same impatience. You keepwatch, you pray, you agonize-provided he does too,sighing, groaning, beset by the same tortures that areracking you. Intolerance is the work of ravaged soulswhose faith comes down to a more or less deliberatetorment they would like to see generalized, instituted.The happiness of others never having been a motiveor principle of action, it is invoked only to appeaseconscience or to parade noble excuses: whenever wedetermine upon an action, the impulse leading to itand forcing us to complete it is almost always inadmissible.No one saves anyone; for we save only ourselves,and do so all the better if we disguise asconvictions the misery we want to share, to lavish onothers. However glamorous its appearances, proselytismnonetheless derives from a suspect generosity,worse in its effects than a patent aggression. No oneis willing to endure alone the discipline he may evenhave assented to, nor the yoke he has shouldered.Vindication reverberates beneath the missionary'sbonhomie, the apostle's joy. We convert not to liberatebut to enchain.Once someone is shackled by a certainty, he enviesyour vague opinions, your resistance to dogmas orslogans, your blissful incapacity to commit yourself.

How can you say that so casually? You're talking about the possible death of hundreds of people, yourself included."He gave a negligent shrug. "Wrong place, wrong time. Life sucks.

Shannon K. Butcher

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.

It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.

Pliny the Elder

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

Thus far, the best that could be said for the day was that it was half over.

Daniel Polansky

A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy.

Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.

Charlotte Brontë

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing

These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well, so what? So's the whole damned world.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

William Shakespeare

My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... in me anything is possible, for I am he who at the supreme moment, in front of absolute nothingness, will laugh.

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