Claude Vorilhon Quotes

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

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

I'm probably the most negative person around.

I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

Marriage is the death of hope.

People die because they find living too painful.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

Pessimism is my default setting.

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

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

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

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

I probably am a dead man already.

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

Who gives a fuck if he's lonely and depressed down there in San Clemente? If there were any such thing as true justice in this world, his rancid carcass would be somewhere down around Easter Island right now, in the belly of a hammerhead shark.