Pessimism Quotes

"Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle." "The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails" "Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself" "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." "One has to have the courage of one's pessimism" "Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation" "There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality." "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" "The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that's a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children" "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." "You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing." "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man" "I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole." "You know why birds fly upside down over here? Because there ain't nothing worth crapping on." "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true" "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it." "The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children." "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." "Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."