Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The...

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

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist –a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist –only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

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

Oh, that’s typical of you modern young men; you’ve nibbled at science and it’s made you ill, because you’ve not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your...

All you need, you think, is a breather, a few minutes standing up at the bar like in the old days, having a harmless bottle of beer. Only the bottle of beer isn’t harmless; it’s...

My glass is not only half-empty, I’m convinced someone spit in it.

He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood.

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.

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!

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?

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?

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

All live to die, and rise to fall.

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...

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...

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.

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.

I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I...

Les optimistes et les pessimistes ont un grand défaut qui leur est commun : ils ont peur de la vérité

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

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

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!

A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning.

I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with