Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you...

But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

See the moon? It hates us.

There is no such thing as magic,” she told me. “You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it’s never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only...

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

We’re all free and equal to die like dogs

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a...

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

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

One can only tolerate the absolute idiocy of Man for so long before bringing out the bat.

…if you live feeling likeYour glass is half empty, well,It may as well be empty all the way.

But it’s like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there’s still no guarantee that anybody’s gonna be there for you to...

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

I have seen so many extraordinary things that nothing seems extraordinary to me

Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn’t last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back.

Human beings shouldn’t have to enter such doors, shouldn’t have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no anything at all. They were worse than the grave, for in the grave...

You always think everything is so easy,” Royce replied, wiping his eyes.”I’m just a glass-half-full kinda guy. How’s your glass looking these days?””I have no idea. I’m still trying to get over the sheer size...

Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.

This is awful. I don’t know what’s going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

Life isn’t all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

Stop moping, sule,” galladon said with a grunt.”It doesn’t suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

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

There are moments when everything goes well; don’t be frightened, it won’t last.

Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

For you the cup isn’t half full or half empty, you’re always topping it up.

I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn’t greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize...

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

It’s a tricky business, nurturing that aura of unapproachability.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

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

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt...

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

When you’ve been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

I know that I’m doomed and I’m not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my...

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Naturally all of us don’t think we deserve very much. We don’t believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent...

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than...