652 Quotes About Pessimism

A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.

No matter how long you are going to live, you are going to die now.

To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.

There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.

I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.