Pessimism Quotes

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

In my heart's most secret place, I pity them as angels do.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

When I was born, the doctor slit my throat to see if I could talk.

The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.

The optimist's hope and the pessimist's despair: reciprocal illusions.

There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear, kind God!

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Keep your eyes and your mind open. Don’t be blinded by filters like fear, uncertainty, pessimism and negativity.

Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered!

The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility, " she murmured.

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.

Pessimism is the key to see what really goes on within our world, the lies and manipulation that circles us all is exposed

It’s not about optimism, pessimism or realism. It’s not about thinking nothing bad will ever happen to you. It’s about having the faith and courage that no matter what happens, you’ll be okay.

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not, ’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.

But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other

There is no such thing as magic, " she told me. "You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it's never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only fall

Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and the decline of aristocracy.

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.