10 Quotes Tagged: pessimistic

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What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

I have seen much of human beings over a long period, and I have learnt how little good to expect from them.

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

Thus heaven's gift to us is this:
That habit takes the place of bliss.

We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.

10 Quotes Tagged: pessimistic

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