Humphrey Bogart Quotes

Bad situations can always get worse.

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

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.

I don't feel like any of the things we're talking about are going to make the world end.

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?

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

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

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

I think these are terrible times to be anything in.

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

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.

Not every cloud has a silver lining.

I ain't never had nothing good in life.

When you're losing, crap happens.

I'm not a 'but' man. Nothing good ever comes of that word.

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

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.