Philosophic Pessimism Quotes & Sayings

My skin was really bad. Roxanne Rizzo's products were the first things that really cleared it up. — Jess Glynne

The responsibility of our time is nothing less than a revolution. A revolution that would be peaceful if we are wise enough; humane if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough. But a revolution will come whether we will it or not. We can affect it's character, we cannot alter it's inevitability. — Robert F. Kennedy

This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces ... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this ... sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted ... why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad

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! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do. — Maureen Dowd

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

He was accustomed to women wanting him. What shocked him was the simple fact that he wanted her.
Not hot, energetic sex. Not a blow job from a novice. He wanted her with a
perplexing intensity he hadn't felt in years. He was the King of Death, and she was his consort.
And no amount of common sense could distract him. — Anne Stuart

One can repent even of having repented. — Bernard Berenson

Been united by superficial tendrils of the small and the mundane, but the enormous fact of your death was ripping each fragile connection. I said — Rosamund Lupton

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms — Guy De Maupassant

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit. — Luke Bryan

Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if only because there was nowhere left to run. — Terry Pratchett

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do. — Thuy Trang

I taught my sons to be men. I don't care who they love. I care about how they act. The moment they stop having manners or treat someone poorly, then we'll have words. Other than that, I only want them to be happy, and if you make Kane happy, then all I have to say to ye is welcome to the family. — Rhys Ford

We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there's always another bottom underneath the one we're laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there's always endless opportunity above us. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner. — Henry Giroux

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant. — Peter Dinklage