Seeing the dark side of it all also has its charms, as understood by Eric Marcus, author of the Pessimistic Manual, his work is certainly able to provoke more laughter than tears, even to explore the dark side of reality.
Strange as it may seem, Eric Marcus is a real estate urban planner, she had a grandmother who was happy to see the dark side of life, which inspired him to write about the worst, with a dose of humor. the phrases of great thinkers and others created and recreated by Marcus himself.
- The book tab contains this sentence: “Are you tired of smiling faces?”Are you tired of hearing “Don’t worry.
- Be happy?”You want to scream.
- Be realistic? The next person to tell you how optimistic?you’re not alone!?.
- Here are fifty of the great truths contained in the manual:.
1-What can you expect from a day that starts with getting out of bed?(Wendy R. Ellner)
2-The only time in life when a woman manages to change men is when she is a baby (Natalie Wood)
3-There is nothing wrong with teenagers that cannot be aggravated by discussions with them. (Many)
4-Keep your eyes peeled before getting married and half closed afterwards (many).
5-The only way to stay healthy is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like and do what you prefer not to do (Mark Twain)
6-The only normal people are the ones you don’t know well (Joe Ancis)
7-Stop worrying about your health. She’s leaving (Robert Orben)
8-Experience is a wonderful thing: it allows us to recognize a mistake every time we repeat it.
9-After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, “Maybe life isn’t for everyone?”(Larry Brown)
10-Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re not being chased
11-A pessimist is an experienced optimist. (Don Marqués)
12-No matter what you decide to do; you’re probably wrong (Ashleigh Brilliant)
13-I always expect the worst and it always happens worse than expected (Henry James)
14-Life is simpler than you think; simply accepts the impossible, dispenses with the indispensable and endures the intolerable (Kathleen Norris)
15-Why do you torture yourself if life is in charge of torturing you? (Laura Walker)
16-No good deed is exempt from punishment. (Clare Boothe Luce)
17-Life is not one curse after another; is the same curse repeated several times (Edna St Vincent)
18-Blessed is a man who expects nothing, for he will never suffer disappointment. (Alexander Pope)
19-Things will get worse before it gets worse. (Lily Tomlin)
20-Life is a difficult business that no one gets out of alive from (Herbert Frankel)
21-It may be a sin to think ill of others, but it will rarely be a mistake (H. L. Mencken)
22-When you try to make a good impression on someone, you will definitely do something stupid (Tamara Valjean)
23-The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. (Unknown author)
24-Whenever you want to marry someone, go to lunch with their ex-wife (Shelley Winters)
25-When a man brings flowers to his wife for no reason, it is because there is a motive (Molly McGee)
26-There is so little difference between husbands that it makes more sense to keep the first one (Adela Rogers St. Johns)
27-Aging is better than the alternative of dying young. (Many)
28-The more a person lives, the less he has to worry about his future (Ashleigh Brilliant)
29-The problem with some women is that they get excited about nonsense and then embrace this nonsense. (Dear)
30-Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm (Winston Churchill).
31-When we finally make it, we will no longer bear it (Malcolm Forbes)
32-There are two tragedies in life: one does not get what you want and the other does not (George Bernard Shaw)
33-A person starts to feel young at 60, but it is too late (Pablo Picasso)
34-The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second by our children. (Clarence Darrow)
35-Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the line between madness and reason blurry?
36-Start with a prince kissing an angel and end up with a bald man staring at a fat woman on the other side of the table. (Anonymous)
37-Happiness is about having a large family of solidarity and diligent that cares for others and is united, but in another city (George Burns).
38-Love is fire. But you never know if you’re going to warm your heart or burn down your house (Joan Crawford).
39-Have courage! It doesn’t matter what you decide to do; you’re probably wrong (Ashleigh Brilliant)
40-Bread always falls with butter down (English proverb)
41-No problem so small that it cannot be disproportionately increased. (Stuart Hughes)
42-Whether you get married or not, you will always regret it. (Paul Brown)
43-When a young woman marries, she shifts the attention of many men to one’s neglect. (Helen Rowland)
44-It is better not to know how sausages and laws are made. (Unknown)
45-Sometimes it seems a pity that Noah and everyone in his group have not lost the ark. (Mark Twain)
46-There is almost nothing in the world that anyone else can do a little worse and sell a little cheaper (John Ruskin)
47-I have enough money for the rest of my life unless I buy something (Jackie Mason)
48-Every man is completely happy twice in his life: right after meeting his first love and right after leaving the last one (H. L. Mencken)
49-Hundreds of thousand lemmings (Norwegian rodents, who fall to death from a cliff as a result of the boss when there is overcrowding) cannot be wrong (many).
50-Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the first one. (Albert Einstein)
Images courtesy of Lauren Kolodny.