George Orwell Quotes

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

My life could have been so grim... really, really grim.

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

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

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

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?

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

We don't have to convince people how screwed they are.

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.

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

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

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.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

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

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

I'm not optimistic.

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'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

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.

The future is kind of a bleak place.

As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things.

I ain't never had nothing good in life.