“ Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it. Peter David
“ Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers. Peter David
“ Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be something that got me high marks. I had an amused glimmering of a notion at that point: If I ever turn… Peter David
“ There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter. Peter David
“ Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be. Peter David
“ All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe that we are living out our lives as best we can, and that we have our own sphere of influence which… Peter David
“ You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that. Amy Jo Cousins
“ All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“ I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even… David Benioff
“ Why is it that all individuals today, at least all who are socially conscious, are in one way or another tortured by social guilt? Because whatever they do is fatally false, falsified by the pressure… Olaf Stapledon
“ Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility," she murmured. Gary Inbinder
“ The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world. Thomas Ligotti
“ In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. Cormac McCarthy
“ Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living. Suzy Kassem
“ We evolved haphazardly within a random universe; no purpose underpins us, no God watches over us, and no assured glorious future awaits us. We are saddled with a dualistic consciousness that weighs us… Colin Feltham
“ The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist, unable to formulate a system in which an individual could believe in God, government or s… Andrew Wilson
“ Keep your eyes and your mind open. Don’t be blinded by filters like fear, uncertainty, pessimism and negativity. Carlos Wallace
