This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
Raymond CarverTags: pessimism existentialism gazebo
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.
Peter CameronTags: pessimism depression
If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.
Sarah DessenTags: pessimism
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
William Arthur WardMan, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
John Kenneth GalbraithTags: intelligence pessimism
I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.
Tags: life pessimism belief sorrow weeping perseverance
POZZO:
I am blind.
(Silence.)
ESTRAGON:
Perhaps he can see into the future.
Tags: humor pessimism future darkness funny
If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.
Stuart HillTags: pessimism accomplishment
There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say what I nearly said, because the good professor's phone pals were used to cheering or teasing him out of bouts of pessimism and insecurity when he would sometimes say ridiculous things like: 'I hope you don't mind being disturbed by some mere wog and upstart.' The remedy for this was not to indulge it but to reply with bracing and satirical stuff which would soon get the gurgling laugh back into his throat. But I'm glad I didn't say, 'What, Edward, splashing about again in the waters of self-pity?' because this time he was calling to tell me that he had contracted a rare strain of leukemia. Not at all untypically, he used the occasion to remind me that it was very important always to make and keep regular appointments with one’s physician.
Christopher HitchensTags: pessimism friendship friends self-pity depression insecurity edward-said leukemia
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
Kingsley AmisTags: truth pessimism love history cynicism
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