652 Quotes About Pessimism

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

Suddenly, one day, out of nowhere, an enormous abyss opened up beneath our feet and I was staring into a face I didn't recognize.

It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Getting something or someone we want is often a guaranteed way to eventually stop us from wanting it, him, or her.

We way more often pray because we want something we do not have than we pray because we have something we do not want.

To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen brow of death: ah, that is something like it. A delicious straying away from the world, and never the return. As only the unreal is not ignoble and empty, existence must be admitted to be abominable. Yes, imagination is the only good thing which heaven vouchsafes to the skeptic and pessimist, alarmed by the eternal abjectness of life.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Perhaps the reality is in the suffering. But it can't be. Love promises happiness. Art promises happiness. Yet it isn't exactly a promise . . .