False Optimism Quotes

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Sometimes when you win, you think you're going to get everything to go your way.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.

RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope

From what mad optimism we descended. The Newspapers had done their job so well that everyone began to imagine that our army had only to show itself to put the entire German army to rout.

Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes.