Pessismism Quotes

“We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Horrle was nodding gravely, humoring him, probably thinking that out of all these two hundred fun-loving people it was just his luck to have run into a doom merchant. McIntyre had committed the sin of pessimism, of course, forgetting, as a Brit, that out here optimism was more than a state of mind; optimism was a philosophy.”
― Christopher Hudson, The Killing Fields

“My first ancestor, Abjar son of Abjar, mounted on his horse outside the city walls, had stared back at the tongues and shouted, "After me, the deluge!”
― Emile Habiby

“We must not, however, see everything with a pessimist’s eyes. Our eyes should be set upon a bright star and always expecting the best, rather than always expecting for the worst cases to happen.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“I'm not a pessimist. I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet