I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.
I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.
I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.
If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.
I'm a total pessimist.
There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.
People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.
Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?
I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.
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.
I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change.
"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.
Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.
I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?
[My father] was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.
