Pessimism quotes

“- Officer Bernard: This is gonna end bad for you.
- Bryan Mills: Don't be such a pessimist.”
Dale Liner - Officer Bernard
Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills

“Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.”
Paul Newman

“You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.”
David Spade

“- Quinn Harris: How do you want it?
- Robin Monroe: Excuse me?
- Quinn Harris: Do you want it sugar-coated, or right between the eyes?
- Robin Monroe: You Pick.
- Quinn Harris: We got no landing gear, so we can't take off. Lightning fried the radio, so we can't call for help. AirSea with try a rescue mission but without a beacon to hone in on...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harrison Ford - Quinn Harris
Anne Heche - Robin Monroe

“Sometimes I think to myself: At least it can't get any worse. But it can! It can get worse! As long as you can say you hit rock bottom, you haven't.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Holden Worther

“- Freddie Bauer: People fall in love every day, huh? Is that what you said?
- Allen Bauer: Yeah.
- Freddie Bauer: Yeah? Well, that's a crock. It doesn't work that way. Look, do you realize how happy you were with her? That is, of course, when you weren't driving yourself crazy. Every day? Come on. Some people will never be that happy. I'll never...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Candy - Freddie Bauer
Tom Hanks - Allen Bauer

“Why is it when everyone else feasts on the pleasure of life, I get the indigestion?”
Walter Matthau - Mr. George Wilson

“There's only two kinds of love stories in this world: boy loses girl, girl loses boy, that's it. Somebody always gets left behind.”
Anthony LaPaglia - John

“Do you ever feel cursed, Coach? Like, no matter what, inside your heart you feel that you're gonna lose. Like something's hanging over you, following you like a witch or a demon that just... I feel like that all the time. Even when things are going good. When we're winning, it's there. And when we're losing, it's there.”
Lucas Black - Mike Winchell

“I can't be a pessimist, because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means you have agreed that human life is an academic matter, so I'm forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.”
James Baldwin - Self

“Look, no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.”
Katie Holmes - Miranda Wells

“- Lab Tech: What if something horrible goes wrong?
- Will Foster: Something already has.”
Amber Townsend - Lab Tech
Keanu Reeves - William Foster

“The economy stinks, bees are dying, and movies are pretty much all sequels now.”
Max Greenfield - Schmidt

“The worst ain't so bad when it finally happens. Not half as bad as you figure it'll be before it's happened.”
Tim Holt - Curtin

“- Sharmeen: I was so worried. We saw on the news that a train derailed, and we thought that you were on the train, and you had died.
- Kumail: Nobody died on that train, ma.
- Sharmeen: But did they look under the train?”
Zenobia Shroff - Sharmeen
Kumail Nanjiani - Kumail

“- Eric Powell: On the bright side, more stew for us.
- Julie Powell: Just for once, could you not look on the bright side?”
Chris Messina - Eric Powell
Amy Adams - Julie Powell

“Sometimes I think there's something wrong with me.”

Matthew Ferguson - Kane

- Gus Green: It could be worse.
- Joe Waters: Hey Gus, please don't say that. 'Cause it can't get any worse. I'm so sick of everytime we get in trouble or something goes bad, we think of, like, worse situations just so we can say "This ain't so bad, it could be worse". Gus, the truth is, it can't get any worse.

Danny Glover - Gus Green
Joe Pesci - Joe Waters

“- Judy Hopps: Tomorrow's another day.
- Pronk Oryx-Antlerson: Yeah, but it might be worse!”
Ginnifer Goodwin - Judy Hopps
Jared Bush - Pronk Oryx-Antlerson

“I think there are two ways you can see the world. You either see the sadness that's behind everything or you choose to keep it all out.”
Ryan Gosling - Leland P. Fitzgerald

“Once you get in the right frame of mind, I think anything's possible. I think we so often get caught in this state of negativity and it's a poison like nothing else.”
Bradley Cooper - Pat

“- Kale: Fiji?
- Sinbad: Think of the beaches!
- Kale: Beautiful - if you like mosquitoes.
- Sinbad: Think of the sun!
- Kale: It's monsoon season!
- Sinbad: The women, then!
- Kale: They're cannibals there.
- Sinbad: Exactly!”
Dennis Haysbert - Kale
Brad Pitt - Sinbad

“- Jo Ann: You're never going to believe what just happened.
- Arturo: If it's bad news, Joanna, I generally believe it.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Jo Ann
Daniel Zacapa - Arturo

“Who came up with this ridiculous concept anyway? Resolve your entire life in one bold stroke? What if I fail? And I will. I'll fail. I'm telling you. I always fail. Then my whole life will be a complete failure.”
Charles Grodin - Harrison Winslow

“- Henri: I know, my little immigrant. You want to find your family. And you will.
- Fievel Mousekewitz: But how? They're so far away, and it's so big. I'll never find them.
- Henri: Excuse moi, pardon, did you say never? So young, and you've already lost hope!”
Christopher Plummer - Henri
Phillip Glasser - Fievel Mousekewitz