Pessimism Quotes

"Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle." "I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole." "Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work." "Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable." "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." "The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children." "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it." "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true" "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." "You know why birds fly upside down over here? Because there ain't nothing worth crapping on." "The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails" "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man" "You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing." "When things are going well, it’s hard to imagine that they could ever go poorly. And when things are going poorly, it’s hard to imagine that they could ever go well again" "There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality." "Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation" "One has to have the courage of one's pessimism" "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." "You're on earth. There's no cure for that." "Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself"