Emilio Estevez Quotes

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

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.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

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

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

I'm a total pessimist.

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

I see the bad in everything I do.

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

I'm a massive pessimist.

I'm a pessimist.

Sometimes it's hard not to feel really negative.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

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

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?