14 Movie Quotes about Pessimism (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Dec 12, 2025

Memorable quotes about pessimism, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Go forth and death be thy destination! Doom! Doom!

James Earl Jones as Ommadon in The Flight of Dragons (1982)

2 If anybody needs me, which I doubt, I'll be in here for the rest of my life, if not longer.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 Aren't you fellows ever positive? -Only about doomsday.

John Hoyt as Sydney Stanton in When Worlds Collide (1951)

4 Why do I have the feelin' this is not gonna be much fun?

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

5 Do I sound that pessimistic? -You do, but I don't think you are. -Why? -To be out on a night like this, you're an optimist.

Charlie Chaplin as Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux

6 Jerry boy, why do you have to paint everything so black? Suppose you got hit by a truck. Suppose the stock market crashes.

Tony Curtis as Joe in Some Like It Hot

7 You know, some guys would look at this glass and they would say, That glass is half empty. Other guys would say, That glass is half full. I peg you as a glass is half empty kind of guy. Am I right?

Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day

8 Well? What croakings of doom have you today?

Anne Baxter as Nefretiri in The Ten Commandments (1956)

9 We're not going to enjoy this, are we?

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

10 Sure looks like fun. Not that I'll ever have any.

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh