Negativity Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

250 Negativity Quotes
“The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.”
I Ching Quotes
“You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.”
Rocky Aoki Quotes
“Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.”
Louis Aragon Quotes
“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”
Christian Nevell Bovee Quotes
“It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.”
Robert Armstrong Quotes
“Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.”
Ceslaw Milosz Quotes
“Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.”
Auson Quotes
“Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ".”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”
Marcus Antonius Quotes
“Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.”
Robert Benchley Quotes
“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”
Edward Bond Quotes
“There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.”
Marcus T. Cicero Quotes
“To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
“The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.”
Larry Adler Quotes
“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.”
Charlotte Bronte Quotes
“Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26].”
Bible Quotes
“My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20].”
Bible Quotes
“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”
Frederic Chopin Quotes
“The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41].”
Bible Quotes
“Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.”
Jean Baudrillard Quotes
“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out. [Numb!2:23].”
Bible Quotes
“God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.”
Robert Irvine Quotes
“I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.”
Helen Alfredsson Quotes
“Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!.”
Steve Martin Quotes