Dismal Outlook Quotes

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

The future is kind of a bleak place.

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.

There's no such thing as good news in America.

Pessimism is 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. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.