negative perspective Quotes

There are much worse games to play.

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news.

When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.

I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.

For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better. For pessimists, there is no amount of happiness—should such a thing as happiness even obtain for human beings except as a misconception—that can compensate us for life’s hurt.

Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

I find that quite enjoyable, trying to see the downsides of someone.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world!

I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get.

If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.

I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.

It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going to the bad. Well, yes, it has, and it is an author's job to point it out.

I see the glass half full...but of poison.