pessimism

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

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 of feeling and thought. Then despair can enter through the rifts. In such cases, a person may be obsessed with destructive joy, dislodging the whole artificial apparatus of his life and starting with rapturous horror to make a clean sweep of it. The horror stems from the loss of all sheltering values, the rapture from his by now ruthless identification and harmony with our nature__ deepest secret, the biological unsoundness, the enduring disposition for doom.

_ The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth__ 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 conquest and one crown, one redemption and one solution._ Know yourselves _ be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

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.

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 to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.

There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.

One of the easiest things in life is to judge others. One of the simplest things we can ever do is to tell how wrong people are. One of the most thoughtless things we can ever do is to show people their faults unconstructively. It is always so easy and common to do such things but, before you do that, find the uncommon reasons for the faulty life.Yes! before you do that, identify how to correct a faulty life and before you do that, think of what drives and invokes the joy, slothfulness or the melancholy in people. Until you go through what people have been through, until you experience what has become a part of people, until you understand what drives the real interest of people and until you become fully aware of the real vision, aspirations, desires and the needs of others, ponder before you criticize!

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

When it rains it pours and when it shines you get melanoma.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

While horror may make us squirm or quake, it will not make us cry at the pity of things. The vampire may symbolize our horror of both life and death, but none of us has ever been uprooted by a symbol. The zombie may conceptualize our sickness of the flesh and its appetites, but no one has ever been sickened to death by a concept.

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.