Digital Pessimism We hope to disappoint
250 Pessimistic quotes
250 quotes of pessimism written or said by illustrious and not so illustrious characters, past, present and future. Digital Pessimism.
Pessimism is the metaphysical doctrine according to which the world is irrevocably evil, and therefore everything in nature and in human life tends to the production and conservation of evil. The main representative of analogical pessimism is Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and the digital one, Koke Mandrágora (1970-?),
Luis Eduardo Aute
I am angered by the stupidity of the human being, the incapacity of the human being to be human instead of a bad beast … I think that throughout our lives we are slowly killing the child we went for pure survival; We live in a jungle, and the jungle forces you to be evil, bad people and cynical to survive. We are executioners of ourselves
Woody Allen
The only way you can be happy is you like pain
Dante Alighieri
Who knows the pain, knows everything
Albert Camus
There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed
Horace Walpole
The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel…
Gabriel García Márquez
Who expects a lot can expect little
Seneca
No man is more unhappy than he who never faced adversity. For he is not allowed to prove himself
Edgar Allan Poe
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so
Charles Chaplin
Look closely, life is a tragedy, but seen from afar, it looks like a comedy
Luis Eduardo Aute
The twentieth century has been one of the worst. It seemed impregnated with civilization, the French Revolution and the Enlightenment had been done, the world was supposed to be channeled towards a more civil coexistence and it was the wildest century
Jean Paul Sartre
I will do good: still the best way to be alone
Soren Kierkegaard
Anguish is the vertigo of freedom
Otto von Bismarck
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made
Silvio Rodríguez
The most terrible thing is learned right away and the beautiful thing costs our lives
Harlan Coben
There is a fine line between hope and disappointment
Pío Baroja
One has the anguish, the despair of not knowing what to do with life, of not having a plan, of being lost
Oscar Wilde
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole
Winston Churchill
The problem of this age is that men do not want to be useful but important
Adolph Hitler
It is not truth that matters, but victory
Jacques Barzun
I have always been – I think any student of history almost inevitably is – a cheerful pessimist
Lance Charnes
Does anything we do ever end it?
Nick Cave
I’m a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can’t help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
Marcel Proust
The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome
Victor Hugo
Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation
Miguel Delibes
Fed of pessimism we do not live the life, we suffer it
Robert G. Allen
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist
Michael Bassey Johnson
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools
Arthur Schopenhauer
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart
Voltaire
“What a pessimist you are!” exclaimed Candide. “That is because I know what life is,” said Martin.
Robert Orben
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that’s not true. Some smaller countries are neutral
Jonathan Kellerman
“Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience”.”What’s pessimism?” I said. “Religion without God.”
Miguel de Unamuno
And be careful on saying the Truth! To those who declare it manly, without ambitions or detours, ache the spirit spirits and skeptical pessimism. Want to maintain the ridiculous comedy of a people pretending to deceive themselves about their status
Pablo Neruda
I am the desperate, the word without echoes, the one who lost everything, and the one who had everything
Gloria Steinem
If not even our bodies – their health, their freedom of movement, their adornment, their use and belonging, what is left?
Arthur Clarke
This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one
Henry Miller
The cancer of time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. The hero, then, is not Time, but Timelessness. We must get in step, a lock step, toward the prison of death. There is no escape. The weather will not change.
Raistlin Majere
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it….
Leonard Cohen
Do not be pessimistic or hopeful
Franz Kafka
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
Mark Twain
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not
Alejandro Dumas Jr
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which he has inflicted upon men, he would kill Himself
Anónimo
It has a defect the pessimism and is that it infects more than the joy
Goethe
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness
Natalie Wood
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby
Enrique Mariscal
An old legend tells that the king of a distant country always lived sad, and to betray the joy, died as he lived, quietly
Saramago
I’m not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The sense of the world must lie outside of the world
Ludwig Wittgenstein
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all
William Shakespeare
Confidence is a feeling of safety which leaves the way open for conspiracy