|
6d472d8
|
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
|
|
reality
friendship
pessimistic
wise
|
Frances Hodgson Burnett |
|
2aef9a7
|
Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.
|
|
soon
premonition
pessimistic
prediction
nice
panic
|
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.
|
|
music
despairing
pessimistic
tragic
purity
cynical
cynicism
despair
|
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."
|
|
relationship
humor
misanthrope
recluse
the-green-knight
iris-murdoch
end-of-the-world
pessimistic
|
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.
|
|
the-green-knight
iris-murdoch
end-of-the-world
pessimistic
meaningless
nihilism
doomsday
|
Iris Murdoch |
|
85a966b
|
"One of these days," he said. "Everything bad will happen--one of these days."
|
|
giovanni-s-room
portent
james-baldwin
pessimistic
bad
ominous
|
James Baldwin |