Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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

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.

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

I'm a total pessimist.

Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.

I'm a pessimist.

At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

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

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

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

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

I felt like things could never get any worse.

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.