Bleak Outlook Quotes

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

Generally, I walk around in a glum mood.

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

If we don't take responsibility for each other, it seems to me the future is going to be even bleaker.

It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

I'm very pessimistic.

even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.

Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending.