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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-?),
Nora Ephron
I always start by reading the last page of a book; So, if I die before I finish it, I will know the end.
Anonymous
The light at the end of the tunnel is just a train, and this one, anyway, is not yours.
James Hagerty
One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.
Susan Wolbarst
Life is a bite or a hunger.
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life; The one is not achieving what you want. The other is to achieve it.
Paulina Borsook
No matter what you order at a restaurant; What others ask will always look better.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life is not one curse after another; Is the same curse that is repeated and repeated.
E. B. White
There are no limits to the complications of things because one thing always leads to something else.
Anonymous
An optimist is a man who says the bottle is half full when it is half empty.
Clare Boothe Luce
No good deed is free from punishment.
Marshall Kirk
Often my mother would tell me, “Marshall, the sooner you learn that life is ninety-five percent misery and only five percent happiness, the better off you will be”
George Bernard Shaw
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Anonymous
What to expect from a day that starts with having to wake up …
Jean Rostand
I am very optimistic about the future of pessimism.
Jean Paul Sartre
It takes a double sun to illuminate the bottom of human stupidity
Fernando Savater
I do not think a mammal can understand the universe.
Joan Manuel Serrat
The truth is never sad, but has no remedy.
Raymond Aron
What passes for optimism is usually the effect of an intellectual error.
Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Viktor Frankl
The pursuit of happiness is one of the main sources of unhappiness.
Robert Frost
If you work faithfully for eight hours a day, you may eventually become the boss and work twelve hours a day.
Jean Echenoz
Pessimism without irony is in bad taste.
George Orwell
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
Emile Zola
I’m not optimistic. I want to be optimistic.
Lily Tomlin
We’re all in this together – by ourselves.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Erich Fromm
The tragedy is that most of us will die before we have learned to live.
Víctor Borge
Santa Claus had the right idea: visit people once a year.
Groucho Marx
Borrow money from a pessimist. He do not expect to be returned.
Don Marquis
A pessimist is a person who has heard too many optimists.
Lenny Bruce
The only normal people are the ones you do not know well.
Bertrand Russell
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!
Laura Walker
Why do you torture yourself if life is to torture you?
Ambrose Bierce
Born: The first and most horrendous of all disasters.
San Bernardo de Clairvaux
To be born is misery, to live is a pain, and to die is a problem.
Dostoievski
Man is pleased to enumerate his sorrows, but does not enumerate his joys.
Haruki Murakami
I’m only sixteen years old and I’m not sure what the world is going to do, but one thing I can say in a nutshell: if I’m pessimistic, the adults of this world who are not pessimists are a shortcut of idiots.
Laurence J.Peter
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Peter Ustinov
I am an optimist, impenitent and militant. In order not to be a fool, the optimist must know that the world can be a very sad place. Only the pessimist finds each new day this sadness. Can a sensible man afford to be pessimistic? That was a treat for less complicated times.
Jaume Perich
An optimist is the one who believes that everything has an arrangement. A pessimist is the one who thinks the same, but knows that no one will try.
Bruce Lee
If you think something is impossible, you will make it impossible for yourself. Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Pessimism does not consist in being tired of evil, but in being tired of good. Despair does not consist in being tired of suffering, but in being tired of joy.
Bob Marley
You can not live in this negative way … Just change your day by living positive. Bob Marley (1945-1981)
Augusto Roa Bastos
What is optimism? Holding on to how good everything is when everything is manifestly wrong.
Albert Schweitzer
To the question of whether I am optimistic or pessimistic I reply that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my will and my hope are optimistic.
Rivers Cuomo
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things went bad and change something!
Daniel Willey
Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity
Henry Miller
It’s silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons
Winston Churchill
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty