Negative Outlook Quotes

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.

I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

I'm a pessimist.

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

The real world is horrible.

If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we should live to the full, to the end of our days. Where if you're religious and you believe in another life somehow, that means you don't live this life to the full because you think you're going to get another one. That's an awfully negative way to live a life. Being a atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily and fully

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

I start out by believing the worst

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.

I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.