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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

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.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

How does knowing ‘things could be worse’ than what I already deem is awful make me feel any better? You mean I could sink even lower? Oh joy!

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance...

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

What scares me most is the pessimism of people.

Those who refuse to drink are always thirsty.

(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.

When people run in circles it’s a very very… mad world.

The only value of this world lay in its power – at certain times – to suggest another world.

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn’t work anyway.

I’m in the middle between a pessimist and an optimist. I take full responsibility for the glass half full. Well, I take half-full responsibility. But if it were full of beer, I’d take full responsibility.

The pursuit of the impossible through the useless.

I have become so pessimistic that these days I’d even choose the truth over friendship.

When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, ‘Cheer up, things could be worse.’ And sure enough, they get worse.

I’m beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.

Só é saudável em nós aquilo pelo que não somos especificamente nós mesmos: são nossas aversões que nos individualizam; nossas tristezas que nos concedem um nome; nossas perdas que nos fazem possuidores de nosso eu....

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

Don’t degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

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