8 Bible Verses about Pessimism

And he said, I will do this; I will take down my barns, and build them larger, and collect there all my crops, and my good things! And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast a multitude of good things in store for many years, be at ease, eat, drink, and be merry! But God said to him, Thou fool! this night shall they demand thy life from thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

that ye were at that time without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and atheists in the world:

And every man who is hearing these sayings of mine, and doth not practise them, he will resemble the foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the rivers rushed, and the winds blew, and set against that house, and it fell; and the fall of it was great.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are fallen asleep, that ye be not afflicted, as the rest [of mankind] who have no hope.

Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, the twin, was not with them when Jesus came. Then the other disciples said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Except I should see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I shall never believe it.

So when neither sun nor stars had appeared for many days, and no small tempest beating on us, all hope of our being preserved was entirely taken from us.

Having then the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore I have spoken, we also believe, and therefore speak; knowing that he who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ, will raise up us also through Jesus, and present us together with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace, through the thanksgiving of more persons, may more abound to the glory of God.read more.
Therefore we never faint; for though our outward man decay, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the transcendent excellence of the power might be of God, and not of us. We are afflicted on every side, yet not reduced to extremities; under difficulties, yet not in despair; persecuted, yet not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;