I forgot what I was going to think.

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

I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, it cannot be lived...

Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.

People always switched on turn me off.

That’s art. Nothing is for everybody.

Life is short unless agony is long.

Every swamp has a silted lining.

If you only go around once in life, then why has that one gone around more than once?

90% of life is showing up. I’m staying home to wait for the other 10%.

On the plus side, life doesn’t add up.

I’m all groan up in America.

The shot glass is half drunk.

Nice days are more unsafe. There are more of them.

The glass is completely full…of shit.

Mothers do not have love affairs. Before their children they have dreams, and after their children they have delusions. If the father is involved somewhere, they have fantasies.

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.

The pessimist! Whenever something good came along, he knew how to make the worst of it.

Don’t let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow’s blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

The cup is both half full and half empty; it has never been one or the other. Stop obsessing over the trivial cup and drink the medicine you’ve been given.

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

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its “resting state” in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over...

Of all the pessimistic people, I am the most optimistic. I look forward to looking down on all the people looking up to me for answers from below.

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

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

Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist – life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for.

POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future.

For better or worse, pessimism without compromise lacks public appeal. In all, the few who have gone to the pains of arguing for a sullen appraisal of life might as well never have been born....

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

There’s no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don’t look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: … But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays.MRS CHEVELEY: Oh, I’m neither. Optimism...

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Do we think we know enough to chart where we are on the arc of our lives? Forgive us, Father, for the arrogance of such projections. What do they gain us? If we project nothing...

The cloud of pessimism that has further darkened as a result of recent developments has to be lifted. While sectarian fissures have always been an integral part of Iraq’s political history, today they have come...

I think it’s better if you rely on the fact you belong together, instead of having to reinvent your togetherness every day. People who say right off the bat that they don’t want to take...

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

Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.

Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power....

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that’s not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.

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.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he...

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

It is possible for things to get worse without limit.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.