Pessimism Quotes Quotes

“Those who have a desperate need for others are more vulnerable to the exploitation of bad people than those who are perfectly fine in their own company.”
― Selim Güre, The Occult of the Unborn

“Life presents innumerable possibilities for love, friendship, compassion, and self-fulfillment, but we must be willing to give in order to receive. Persistence, sacrifice, a quest for knowledge, along with acquaintance with our true self is essential in order to achieve our dreams. Panic, fear, worry, doubt, anger, and a negative attitude are the biggest impediments to self-realization. The most important battle we undertake in life is not with other people; rather it takes place in the human mind.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Exit God, exit religion, exit divine purpose; enter cosmic insignificance, enter universal purposelessness, enter ever-fleeting pleasures and ever-present suffering—life does indeed seem very bleak. No myths, no prophecies, nothing to console the thinking individual. What's left is a heartless, cosmic meat-grinder that is perfectly indifferent to its inhabitants. Without the 'vital lies' we tell ourselves, our lives are utterly useless.”
― Selim Güre, The Occult of the Unborn

“Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography

“To many, the meaning of life—or lack thereof—is not even an issue. Their meaning is prescribed by the religions to which they subscribe, or one of the secular worldviews they choose for themselves... They have a way of living imposed upon them and seem to be content with a problematic world insofar as it has answers. The destiny of those who think for themselves, on the other hand, is wholly different—usually dramatic.”
― Selim Güre, The Occult of the Unborn

“Pessimism is the result of too much culture and introversion.”
― Charles Godfrey Leland, Aradia: Gospel of the Witches

“Although routinely criticized, a pessimist attitude enables a person never to be disappointed with the vagrancies of life or frustrated by the outcome of any event. A pessimist prepares for reality by considering every possible contingency. Having reckoned with the worst possible circumstances, and game planned what to do in the event of the most drastic outcome, a pessimist is pleasantly surprised when they achieve a better than expected result.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

“The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Have you ever heard the Hungarian national anthem? No? Good for you! I wouldn’t recommend it at all. Unless you are looking for inspiration for your suicide attempt. If it is not just an attempt but you are deadly serious about your suicide then I strongly recommend you not only read the lyrics but listen to the music too. The most mournful funeral song sounds jolly compared to it. Other nations have inspiring anthems like ‘God Save the Queen’ or the ‘La Marseillaise’ or ‘The StarSpangled Banner’, and their lyrics are about victory and proudness like ‘Russia – our sacred homeland, Russia – our beloved country’ or ‘Germany, Germany above everything, Above everything in the world!’ But what about the Hungarian anthem? It starts with ‘O Lord, bless the Hungarian’ and then follow eight long and painful stanzas about our ‘slave yoke’ and ‘funeral urn’ and ‘the corpses of our defeated army’ and ‘groans of death, weeping’ and finally it finishes with ‘Pity, O Lord, the Hungarians they who have suffered for all sins of the past and of the future!’ Yes, of the future too.”
― Angela Kiss, How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

“An optimist is actually a pessimist well prepared for all eventualities, not a blind adventurer.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can live our life with the taint of aftermath or look forward to embracing each beguiling day with renewed energy and enthusiasm.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“For the pessimist, the new baby in the womb is already dead before he even sees the world. For, a new life means that a new death is approaching.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“If you believe the world is conspiring against you it will just do that; you will help on by your pessimism action to prove you are right.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

“I’m a bit of a pessimist, someone who doesn’t expect the zombie apocalypse, but at the same time, I’ve got a bugout bag ready in my SUV . . . just in case.”
― Lauren Landish, The Blind Date

“Being miserable is something one carries in the soul before it is made apparent in the spirit. - On Being Miserable”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“The common sense she had as a young woman solidified into pessimism, and the war and its tribulations have only served to reaffirm that life is disappointing, the newspapers full of lies, and nothing she does will make a blind bit of difference.”
― Joanna Quinn

“Pessimism is merely lazy thinking and nothing more.”
― Richie Norton

“Whatever promises everything often ends up taking everything away.”
― Eduvie Donald

“Once the demand that existence justify itself has been abandoned, there is less left to defend.”
― Dain Sica, The Failed Experiment: An Essay on Consciousness, Determinism, Suffering, and the Human Condition

“Someone who expected a soulmate may become disillusioned when the person they love turns out to be an ordinary human being.”
― Dain Sica, The Failed Experiment: An Essay on Consciousness, Determinism, Suffering, and the Human Condition

“A sunset remains real even after its colors are explained by physics. Love remains an experience even when its mechanisms are understood.”
― Dain Sica, The Failed Experiment: An Essay on Consciousness, Determinism, Suffering, and the Human Condition

“The central illusion is that human beings stand outside the environment they are managing. We do not.”
― Dain Sica, The Failed Experiment: An Essay on Consciousness, Determinism, Suffering, and the Human Condition

“Ideas will not survive simply because they were true or because they were profound. They survive only while there are minds capable of preserving and transmitting them.”
― Dain Sica, The Failed Experiment: An Essay on Consciousness, Determinism, Suffering, and the Human Condition

“​"I was never the villain," says God on the day of his judgment. "But you created us and allowed suffering, hiding behind a meaningless, absurd test that serves no one but your ego. You created a species and gave it consciousness; it became aware of its suffering, but you removed its free will so it couldn't escape," says humanity.”
― Dain Sica, The Failed Experiment: An Essay on Consciousness, Determinism, Suffering, and the Human Condition

“Consider the human species as an experiment, though an experiment without a designer, a purpose, or anyone standing outside it to observe the result. Those processes happened to produce an organism with an unusual degree of reflective consciousness, capable of representing not only its immediate surroundings but also itself, its own mortality, and the possibility that the universe has no concern for its existence.”
― Dain Sica, The Failed Experiment: An Essay on Consciousness, Determinism, Suffering, and the Human Condition