Philosophic Pessimism Quotes

#1. What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#2. If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception.

Alex Hirsch

#3. It was the union of Franks, Goths, and Roman provincials against these Asiatics that produced the basis for modern France.

Robert D. Kaplan

#4. This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free.
Alas, the summer's energy wanes quickly,
A moment and it is gone. And no longer
May we make the necessary arrangements, simple as they are.
Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.

John Ashbery

#5. Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

Mary Beth Whitehead

#6. I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who ... prayed..with ... unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

Greg Louganis

#8. This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces ... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this ... sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted ... why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad