“ How can you say that so casually? You're talking about the possible death of hundreds of people, yourself included."He gave a negligent shrug. "Wrong place, wrong time. Life sucks. Shannon K. Butcher
“ It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else. Gillian Flynn
“ A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy. Mark Samuels
“ My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... in me anything is possible, for I am he who at the supreme moment, in front of absolute nothingness,… Emil M. Cioran
“ Another flaw of the system is the fact that various danger fronts often require very different firmaments. As a logical superstructure is built upon each, there follow clashes of incommensurable modes… Peter Wessel Zapffe
“ – The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth’s is a pond and a backwater.– The sign of doom is written on your brows – how long will ye kick against the pin-pricks?– But there is one conques… Peter Wessel Zapffe
“ Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God. George F. Will
“ 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… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia. William Faulkner
“ If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited. Bryant McGill
“ You can't ever really have enough worth that when you're gone, the spot you left won't close over. Laura Florand
“ So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing. Shalom Auslander
“ There are two words that I believe could be completely eradicated from our vocabulary – “I can’t.” These two words are so definite that they leave absolutely no room for hope. Instead, I suggest we us… Daniel Willey
“ All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smoth… Rachel Kushner
“ The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome. Marcel Proust
“ We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves. Malcolm Gladwell
“ We’re programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. It’s kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may… Ruth Dugdall
