#pessimism

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic. ↗

— Kim Young-ha

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

— Raymond Carver

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There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last. ↗

— Jules Renard

#pessimism

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information. ↗

— Idries Shah

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Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. ↗

— Howard Zinn

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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 Cameron

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It is possible for things to get worse without limit. ↗

— Dr. Herbert R.J. Grosch

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The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression. ↗

— John Derbyshire

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Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. ↗

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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