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-?),
Jaume Perich
A pessimist is an optimist who has been able to accept reality
Tito Livio
Fear is always willing to see things worse than they are
Norman Cousins
Marty Rubin
Reciprocal illusions: the pessimist’s fear and the optimist’s hope
Nicholas Hoult
I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you’re a pessimist then that’s depressing all the time; if you’re an optimist and things don’t work out then that’s depressing, too
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night
Arthur Schopenhauer
For millions and millions of human beings the real hell is the earth
Anonymous
A pessimist is someone who feels bad when they feel good, for fear of feeling worse when they feel better
Adolph Hitler
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence
Anonymous
Murphy was an optimist
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity
Otto von Bismarck
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood
William Arthur Ward
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails
Seneca
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is
Anónimo
When things are going well, it’s just because you’re forgetting something
Chauncey Depew
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are
Woody Allen
To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you’re getting this down
Arthur Schopenhauer
To desire immortality is to desire the perpetuation of a great error
Adolph Hitler
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle
Vigo Vega
When we finally do it, it does not matter anymore.
Anonymous
Be brave! It does not matter what you decide to do; Chances are you’re wrong.
Adolph Hitler
The day of individual happiness has passed
Koke Mandrágora
Every optimistic phrase becomes pessimistic if you look at it from above.
Eckhart Tolle
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
Jess C. Scott
That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something … real. “Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms.” Real love, real friends, real body parts …
Saramago
If there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.
Pablo Picasso
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Le Duc Tho
The computer is an instrument capable of multiplying human stupidity by a thousand.
Dennis Gabor
The most important and urgent problems of today’s technology are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or the archetypal desires, but the reparation of the evils and damages provoked by the technology of yesterday.
Albert Einstein
Why does this magnificent scientific technology, which saves work and makes our lives easier, brings us so little happiness? The answer is simply, because we have not yet learned to use it well.
Woody Allen
Being realistic means that most of the time you are depressed rather than happy.
Anonymous
What is the use of solving technological problems if we do not even know how to solve the problems of our life?
Pity Pit
There is more mystery in the tiniest insect than in the power of a supercomputer.
Bill Gates
I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least 10 years. Bill Gates, 1994.
Nicholas Petreley
I’m not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I just suspect that if Microsoft ever met the devil, they would not need an interpreter.
Stephen Hawking
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.
Carl Sagan
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.
Mitchell Kapor
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is only deferred death.
Clarice Lispector
The future technology threatens to destroy all that is human in man, but technology does not touch madness; and it is there that the human in man takes refuge.
Eduardo Galeano
The development of technology is not serving to multiply leisure time and freedom spaces, but is multiplying unemployment and is sowing fear.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
Kevin Mitnick
Some people think technology has the answers.
B. F. Skinner
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do
Tom Hodgkinson
All our technology is completely unnecessary for a happy life.
Christian Lous Lange
Technology is a helpful servant, but a dangerous master.
Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Erich Fromm
Education manufactures machines that act as men and produce men who act as machines.
Ambrose Bierce
Death is not the end, there remains litigation over the estate.
Larry Brown
After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, “
Lemmings
One hundred thousand lemmings (rodents from Norway, who commit suicide from a cliff, following the leader, when there is overpopulation) can not be mistaken.