Paul Newman Quotes

The future is kind of a bleak place.

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

I love bleak things.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

I felt like things could never get any worse.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

I'm a total pessimist.

Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.

The world is always terrible.

I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.