Expecting the Worst Quotes

I start out by believing the worst

I assume that the worst will happen. So I'm never optimistic.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

Call me paranoid. I´m frequently right.

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

We have every reason to assume the worst.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.