Expect the Worst: You Won’t Be Disappointed

Pessimistic Thoughts on Life, People, Relationships, Family, Work, Politics, and the State of the World.

Have a nice day. Not! Sick of smiley faces? Had it with”Don’t Worry, Be Happy”?

Feel like screaming “Get real!” to the next person who tells you to look on the bright side? You’re not alone!

Gleefully reminding us that life is just an angst-filled prelude to death, Eric Marcus has assembled the drolly dire insights of famous pessimists and everyday cynics who know that the glass is indeed half empty.

Celebrate the plight we call life with dozens of part- and full-time grouches-Woody Allen, Fran Lebowitz, Henry Miller, Anne Sexton, Clarence Darrow, Albert Einstein, Malcolm Forbes, and many more-who irreverently accentuate the absurdity of relationships, families, money, religion, politics and health; the inevitability of wrinkles, cellulite, war, and famine; and the sanity-saving value of a healthy dose of cynicism.