Pessimism Quotes

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.

David Benioff

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

William Shakespeare

It conquers nihilism and pessimism/Suicide and self-annihilation./ It conquers its own death. /It is the spark of fire that kindles life forever.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

?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 it in others even in the most irritating others.

David Benioff

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

Marquis De Custine

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

Chuck Palahniuk

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Oscar Wilde

I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.

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SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays.MRS CHEVELEY: Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses.SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: You prefer to be natural?MRS CHEVELEY: Sometimes. But it is such a very difficult pose to keep up.(Act I., lines 132-140)

Oscar Wilde

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 second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

Kingsley Amis

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Elias Canetti

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.

E. M. Cioran

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Janeane Garofalo

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Agnes Repplier

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Benjamin Franklin

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

Robert Lowell

I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.

Phil Lout

It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.

Coleman Cox

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

Jonathan Swift