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-?),
Anonymous
The honest people are social misfits
Arthur Schopenhauer
To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again
Arthur Schopenhauer
Suicide, far from denying the will, affirms it energetically. Because denial does not consist in hating pain, but in the enjoyment of life. The suicidal loves life; The only thing that happens is that it does not accept the conditions in which it is offered.
Clint Eastwood
Jean Paul Sartre
No need for fire, hell are the others
Murphy’s law
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Vigo Vega
The universe is pessimistic and man keeps insisting on optimism. You do not believe me?. Ask the entropy.
Saramago
Optimists are wrong, but the world they see is that.
Leonard Cohen
I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy. And I think I’m probably the most cheerful man around. I don’t consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.
Kurt Cobain
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
Marlo Thomas
Never face the facts; If you do, you will never get up every morning.
Chuck Palahniuk
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
Jean Rostand
My pessimism goes so far as to suspect the sincerity of the pessimists.
Philip K. Dick
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.
Ronnie Shakes
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell is that for?
Antonio Gramsci
I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Mariano Rajoy
The pessimist is the one who, when he has to choose between two evils, chooses both.
Hunter Madsen
When two pessimists meet, they do not shake hands with effusion but shake their heads with effusion (negatively).
Elbert Hubbard
A pessimist is one who has been intimately familiar with an optimist.
Arnold Bennett
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is as enjoyable as optimism.
A.S. Byatt
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along
Anonymous
Pessimist is the person who suffers in advance
Arthur Bloch
An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.
Koke Mandragora
In the end, it does not matter an Iphone, a Galaxy or a Nexus. There is always a curb waiting for your Smartphone.
Pérez Reverte
As much as you overcome, always at the end there is someone who defeats you. As much as you succeed, there is always an iceberg waiting for the Titanic.
Jean Cocteau
My pessimism is just a kind of optimism.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
It always happens the opposite of what we expected, doesn’t it?
Michael Chabon
People who make their living flirting with disaster develop a talent for pessimistic imagination.
Thomas Hardy
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed
Oscar Wilde
Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses.
Charles Bukowsky
Often the best parts of life were when you weren’t doing anything at all. I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can’t be quite senseless because you are aware that it’s senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean? An optimistic pessimism.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Vulgar men have invented the life of society because it is easier for them to bear others than to support themselves
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Optimistic is the one who looks you in the eye; Pessimistic, the one who looks at your feet
Jean Paul Sartre
Man is condemned to be free
Albert Camus
The sad ones have two reasons to be
Elias Canetti
There is no impossible pain, the only infinite is pain
Philip Larkin
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had… And add some extra, just for you.
Anonymous
Friends can come and go, but enemies pile up
Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil
Jean Anouilh
There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy
Arthur Helps
The sun is shining all around, but there are some who will only contemplate their own shadows
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The woman cries before the wedding and the man after
Anonymous
Smile, tomorrow will be worse or just more of the same
Luis Carrillo Hernández
To be overcome by pessimism is to turn off the light of hope
Francois Guizot
Pessimists are not but spectators
Anonymous
The optimist says: ‘It can be very difficult but it is possible’. The pessimist says: ‘It may be possible, but it is very difficult’