#pessimism

"I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!"

"Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls."

"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst."

"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back."

"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down"

"I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping."

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible"

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"Fuck you! I hope you die!""Everybody Dies,"I said. "So fuck you."

"When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse."

"He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish."

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."

"The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die."

"See the moon? It hates us."

"Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity."

"Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular."

"In my heart's most secret place,I pity them as angels do."

"I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard."

"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."

"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?"