Unfavorable Outlook Quotes

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

Once there was a certain man who was very clever, but it was his character to always see the negative points of his work. If such is one’s way, one will be useless.

No good news, which means the same as bad news.

I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you - aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy - a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Vietnam is getting worse every day. It’s like being in an airplane and having to choose between crashing the plane or jumping out. I do not have a parachute.

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

I was christened 'Nigel.' It set me back for years.

I think these are terrible times to be anything in.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

A developer who is not optimistic shouldn't be a developer.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.