pessimism

POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I have produced no children of my own and my husband is dead," she replied, an acid tone in her voice. "Thus I am more to be pitied than revered. I am expected to give up the shop to my nephew, who will then be able to afford to bring a very good wife from Pakistan. In exchange, I will be given houseroom and no doubt, the honor of taking care of several small children of other family members."The Major was silent. He was at once appalled and also reluctant to hear any more. This was why people usually talked about the weather.

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has produced a countervailing conviction that educating, organizing, uniting, and acting will make a difference.

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

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

I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.