Quotes about Pessimism

It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought.

I don't believe in the world, not in money, nor in advancement, nor in the future of our civilization.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Are all men bad? Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.

What he was now seeing was the street lonely, savage, and cool. That was it: cool; he was thinking, saying aloud to himself sometimes, "I better move. I better get away from here." But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.

A negative mind spawns only negative ideas.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.

Every day was bad news and worse than the one before it, and that was all you could expect from life.