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 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.

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

People always switched on turn me off.

That’s art. Nothing is for everybody.

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.

I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it...

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as...

De leur meilleur côté t chons de voir les choses:Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers épineux;Moi je me réjouis et rends gr ces aux dieuxQue les épines aient des roses.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

Fuck you! I hope you die!””Everybody Dies,” I said. “So fuck you.

If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.

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

He has no doubts, there is nothing you can say to sway him, to give him hope or trust. He is a miserable animal whose body decays, who will die, who will pass into dust...

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

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a...

The author says people are guilty of “wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the...

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

One can be a pessimist in thought, but not in action.

Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others.

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that...

However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off, mainly in consequence of the antagonism between the ills of the body and...

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy,...

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.

Once I started trying to give positive reviews, though, I began to understand how much happiness I took from the joyous ones in my life—and how much effort it must take for them to be...

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner or later you have to ask yourself, or the person with you, ‘will...

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The divine right of kings may now be acknowledged as a fabrication, a falsified permit for prideful dementia and impulsive mayhem. The inalienable rights of certain people, on the other hand, seemingly remain current: somehow...

Sombres, dites-vous? Mais posez-vous la question docteur : pourquoi tous les grands philosophes sont-ils sombres? Demandez-vous qui sont les gens satisfaits, rassurés et éternellement joyeux! Laissez-moi vous donner la réponse : ce sont ceux qui...

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it.Becoming: an agony without an ending.The older I grow, the less I enjoy performing my little Hamlet....

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.

To see all pessimists as pessimists is to be a pessimist.