Terry Pratchett Quotes

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

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

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

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

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

I'm a total pessimist.

All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought I'd get older and become an unnaturally cheerful old fart. But it's not happening.

I'm a pessimist.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

False hope really makes you cynical.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.