pessimistic worldview Quotes

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

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.

Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.