#pessimism

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."

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

"But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best."

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

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

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

"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."

"With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement."

"School prepares you for the real world... which also bites."

"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?"

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

"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."

"I can’t can’t, but since I can’t, I clearly can."

"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."

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

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

"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"

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

"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."