Agnes Repplier Quotes

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

I'm very pessimistic.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

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

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

I'm probably the most negative person around.

The real world is horrible.

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Pessimism is my default setting.

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.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.

I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.

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

I'm sort of a negative guy.

High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?