Pessimisn Quotes & Sayings

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. — Margaret Mead

If you're reading this ...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is. — Chad Sugg

The glory of God is man fully alive. (Saint Irenaeus) — John Eldredge

I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?' — Thom Mayne

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. — George Santayana

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality. — Victoria De Los Angeles

One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with - — Jack Kerouac

I haven't forgotten. But if I fail you, you can rely on Cathy. — Isabel Allende

If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The houses were squat and almost identical and each one had a square of grass in front of it like a dog gripping a stolen steak. — Flannery O'Connor

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another. — Ambrose Bierce

When I make my drawings ... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness. — Alberto Giacometti

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due. — Darren Criss

To tirelessly promote the cause of Christ and his Father's Kingdom is the fire that should burn bright in the hearts of all men"

~ R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism, — Julian Assange

Skydiving is a rush. Doing it naked could be more of a rush, but it's nothing I would ever consider. — Jud Tylor