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.

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.

The glass is completely full…of shit.

I’m all groan up in America.

The shot glass is half drunk.

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

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...

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it...

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

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.

My fear of the future, she says, has not yet failed.

I can’t seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind...

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.

Der Pessimismus der Vernunft verpflichtet zum Optimismus des Willens!

When you are nothing but pessimistic you are the enabling force of impossibility.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

People think I’m all gloom and doom all the time. I’m not. I also have bad days where I’m pessimistic.

Y al final dejó el horror de esta vida para entrar en el horror de la muerte.

Does anything we do ever end it?

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Who gathers the withered rose?

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

Better Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Jeremiahs.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

Pessimism doesn’t change the reality; it prolongs the status quo. And it brings everyone down. It’s only ever lose-lose. Optimism and faith coupled with pragmatism change the reality. Self-belief and self-reliance change the reality. Boldness...

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily–as we shall...

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same...

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn’t changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

How can I?

You better watch out, or you’re going to be defeated by pessimism!

Se sou pessimista é porque o mundo é péssimo, só isso.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is.An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist...

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

My name is Hope Happy, and I am a pessimist.

School prepares you for the real world… which also bites.

Put this huge glow in the dark mask-smile of pessimism, with long teeth and big mouth, on the floor face, she srastetsya with your skin, it will flash whenever you are going to talk, she...

pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.