Pessimism proverbs

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

- Charles Chaplin99

◆ If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

- Sarah Dessen99

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

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

- Alphonse Karr99

◆ What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ 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.

- P.G. Wodehouse99

◆ Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

- Thomas L. Friedman99

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

- Philip K. Dick99

◆ You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ 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.

- Ted Dekker99

◆ I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

- Antonio Gramsci99

◆ No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

- Jeffrey R. Holland99

◆ When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

- Robert Lynn Asprin99

◆ If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer99

◆ The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

- Mark Twain99