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6d472d8 You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. friendship pessimistic reality wise Frances Hodgson Burnett
2aef9a7 Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor. nice panic pessimistic prediction premonition soon Kim Harrison
4da6ee4 Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. pessimistic self Robert M. Sapolsky
20216cf Music -- good music, great music -- had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses' ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something. cynical cynicism despair despairing music pessimistic purity tragic Julian Barnes
0882153 "In a century or two this planet will have been destroyed by external cosmic forces or by the senseless activity of the human race. Human life is a freak phenomenon, soon to be blotted out. That is a consoling thought. Meanwhile we are surrounded by strange invisible entities, possibly your angels." "I hope so." "Ah, you think they are good, they be good, there is no good, the tendency to evil is overwhelming. One has only to think of the horrors of sex, its violence, its cruelty, its filthy vulgarity, its descent into bestial degradation. You had better go and dream in your monastery." "Would you come and visit me there?" "Of course not. I do not visit. Only, unfortunately, am sometimes visited." "You don't want to discuss -- you know -- what happened? My priest said -- " "No." "I care about how you are, I love you." "You still fail to realise how this sort of talk sickens me. Now please go. This will do for a welcome home scene. Tell them not to come. I desire to be left alone." end-of-the-world humor iris-murdoch misanthrope pessimistic recluse relationship the-green-knight Iris Murdoch
6f2422b Our planet is a freak which we shall destroy by our own wicked senseless activities in the next century. Our history will very soon come to an end. Now that God is dead, we are at last presented with the truth, yes, the truth remains, but it is on a short lead. Anyway, we are nothing and it matters not what we do. doomsday end-of-the-world iris-murdoch meaningless nihilism pessimistic the-green-knight Iris Murdoch
85a966b "One of these days," he said. "Everything bad will happen--one of these days." bad giovanni-s-room james-baldwin ominous pessimistic portent James Baldwin