Thom Yorke Quotes

You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

One of the pleasures of pessimism is that when you’re right, you’re right and when you’re not, you’re pleased.

I've always been a glass-half-empty sort of person.

I'm a massive pessimist.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

I'm rarely optimistic.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

I've never been an optimist.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.