Pessimism quotes

“- Eowyn: The city has fallen silent. There is no warmth left in the sun.
- Faramir: It is only the damp of the first spring rain. I do not believe this darkness will endure.”
Miranda Otto - Eowyn
David Wenham - Faramir

“- Timon: Look, kid. Bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it. Right?
- Young Simba: Right.
- Timon: Wrong! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world.”
Nathan Lane - Timon
Jonathan Taylor Thomas - Young Simba

“Well, don't worry about it. I mean, what could happen? Of course, my design could have a few flaws. And after a few weeks, Will and I discover we hate each other. Abigail proves to be the flake of the century; she can't raise a dime. A giant sandstorm comes along, knocks this place over, we go broke, the IRS throws us in jail. The State...” (continue)(continue reading)

Stellan Skarsgård - Joe Heiser

“- Ernie Mott: I wonder what the weatherman promises for tomorrow.
- Ada Brantline: Likely rain - followed by suicide in bed.”
Cary Grant - Ernie Mott
June Duprez - Ada Brantline

“- Cathy: Don't pretend life hasn't improved for you.
- Heathcliff: Life has ended for me.”
Merle Oberon - Cathy
Laurence Olivier - Heathcliff

“What's there is a snotty little princess wearing a strategically planned sundress to make guys like us realize we can never touch her, and guys like, uh, Joey realize they want to. She, my friend, is what we will spend the rest of our lives not having.”

David Krumholtz - Michael Eckman

“I thought that small talk was too small, I thought big talk was too pretentious, I thought music was noise, and I thought art was bullshit.”
John Cassavetes - Maurice Aarons

“The good news is the tickets are selling like hotcakes. The bad news is the kids sound like shit.”

Meryl Streep - Roberta Guaspari

“- Arlo: We're heroes, my man. It's time to start acting like it. Quit limping around like that.
- Tim Mason: Excuse me, I got a bullet in my leg.
- Arlo: Always the negative with you.”
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Arlo
Skeet Ulrich - Tim Mason

“This is a very fucked-up situation.”
Philip Baker Hall - Sydney

“- Balto: Maybe it's because your looking at the bowl half-empty. See this it's the polar ice caps.
- Jenna: Balto those are broken bottles and they're not half-empty they're all empty.”
Kevin Bacon - Balto
Bridget Fonda - Jenna

“- The Wiseman: Quite often, young lady, it seems like we're not getting anywhere, when in fact...
- The Hat: We are!”

Frank Oz - The Wiseman
David Shaughnessy - The Hat

“- Ivan Alexeev: Josh, losing those jobs is the best thing that ever happened to us! We're free to pursue our destiny!
- Josh Tager: What, abysmal failure?
- Ivan Alexeev: Negativity festers in you, man!”
John Cusack - Ivan Alexeev
Tim Robbins - Josh Tager

“Either the world's right side up or upside down, it depends on how you look at it. I mean, close the book of rules and there's just people caught in situations - like you and me.”
Ellen Lee DeGeneres - Sgt. Rita Pompano

Probably the most important thing is that when things get really bad and the world looks its darkest, you just have to throw up your hands and say "Well, alright!" cause it's probably gonna get a whole hell of a lot worse.
Trey Parker - Alferd Packer

“- Jack Leary: Nothing is alright!
- John Leary: Then we're gonna make it alright.”
Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. - Jack Leary
Danny DeVito - John Leary

“The Shaman taught me that brave tales do not always have happy endings. I know what guns can do.”
Tanya Roberts - Sheena

“- Catherine: Oh good, there's a tractor so there must be a farm up ahead.
- Robert: How do you know? The farm could have burnt down and all that's left is the tractor
- Catherine: You're a glass half empty kind of fellow, aren't you?
- Robert: No, I just live in the real world where people don't drive Jaguars in the snow.”
Julie Andrews - Catherine
James Garner - Robert Woodward

“Sometimes you can just smell a horrendously shitty day on the way, can't you?”
Michael Keaton - Henry Hackett

“It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.”
Chris Haywood - Detective Hummer

“- Milburn Drysdale: Where is your mother?
- Morgan Drysdale: She's changing.
- Milburn Drysdale: That would be too much to hope for.”
Dabney Coleman - Milburn Drysdale
Kevin Connolly - Morgan Drysdale

“If you have a medical opinion, then please speak up and speak up loud. But if you ever again tell me or my surgical staff that we're going to lose a patient, I'm gonna take out your lungs with a fucking ice cream scoop.”
Alec Baldwin - Jed

“- Claudia: You know, maybe next year will be better for you.
- Russell Terziak: Hey, yeah - or worse.”
Holly Hunter - Claudia
David Strathairn - Russell Terziak

“It's lucky the world isn't made according to your definiton, because it would be an ugly one.”
Kylie Minogue - Lola

“I would rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
Lou Jacobi - Kurt Gödel