Pessimism

Parents

"A man must swallow a toad every morning to be sure not to meet with anything more disgusting in the day ahead."
"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality."
"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."
Alain de Botton on Pessimism
Arthur Schopenhauer
Defensive pessimism
Depressive realism
Seneca