#pessimism

Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers. ↗

— Émile Zola

#religion #science #age

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

— Jim Benton

#pessimism #school #education

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pessimism #puddleglum #humor

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

#pessimism #life

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 Dekker

#christianity #pessimism #positive-thinking #life

It’s a tricky business, nurturing that aura of unapproachability. ↗

— Dean Hale

#pessimism #business

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

#journey

See the moon? It hates us. ↗

— Donald Barthelme

#philosophy #pessimism

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way. ↗