652 Quotes About Pessimism

It takes selfishness to do something intentionally.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

The worst thing about life is that, after the extremely rare nondual awakening, mere pleasure is the best thing that you can get out of it.

And for those who cannot curb their enthusiasm, seeing the cup half full, and for those who cannot find the way to be happy because the cup is half empty, we can meet not in the middle, but being our kind, the human kind, meet where the cup runneth over, and everyone can choose not to make another unhappy.

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

The person you are mad at for being late could be late.

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.