Famous Negativity Quotes

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
-- Mary Baker Eddy

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
-- Frank Moore Colby

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.
-- Eric Butterworth

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
-- John Dewey

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

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
-- Edward Dowden

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.
-- Bible

Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
-- Clive James

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
-- Barbara Hoffman

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
-- Felicia D Hemans

Success has made failures of many men.
-- Cindy Adams

Success is 99 percent failure.
-- Soichiro Honda

Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.
-- Maimonides

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

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
-- Alexander Haig

The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
-- Elizabeth Bishop

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?.
-- Margaret Gatty

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.
-- John Lancaster Spalding

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
-- Pierre Charron

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
-- Jean Bryant