#pessimism

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

"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."

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

"The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?"

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

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