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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
Explore more quotes by Herman Melville
"Whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off-then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."
"The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up-flaked up, with rose-water snow."
"Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form."
"One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab."
"He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea."
"How I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast."
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