Charles Murray Quotes

I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

I'm rarely optimistic.

I've never been an optimist.

I'm very pessimistic.

I'm a massive pessimist.

I've seen it all, done it all, known it all.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Pessimism is my default setting.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

Life is a jest; and all things show it., I thought so once; but now I know it.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.

I'm a pessimist.

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

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

It's easy to be negative.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.