Pessimism Quote by J.D. Salinger

“You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.”

— Charmian Hussey

“You and I had already spent two-thirds of our lives trying to satisfy that bastard’s every whim, just because we were afraid of what…

— Anonymous

“Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?”

— Sherry Thomas

“One of them is that a bastard is always a bastard and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit about him,…

— Stieg Larsson

“Understand, daughter, that the only reason for your existing was as a tribute to your uncle-father. You were meant to love him. I planned…

— Katherine Dunn

“Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”

— Margaret Atwood

“I was swiftly losing faith in humanity. Not that I had much to spare.”

— wildbow

“And I make a little vow then, to myself. To not let the backs and forths of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.”

— Deb Caletti

“His despair was delicious when I told him what I'd done to her. What I would make you into. Not a child of peace-but…

— Sarah J. Maas

“It's a promise to be better than I was. It's a vow that if I can't be anything else to you, at least I…

— Leigh Bardugo

“For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?”

— Bob Sorge