Pessimism Quotes

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience"."What's pessimism?" I said."Religion without God.

So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing.

I'm all groan up in America.

You can't ever really have enough worth that when you're gone, the spot you left won't close over.

This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed.

My life is so bad that it's worse than it really is.

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.

When it rains it pours and when it shines you get melanoma.

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.

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

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.

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!

The optimist is a pessimist with a plan

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.'

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