Pessimism Quotes
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As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.
— Bernie Sanders
John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.
— John Taliaferro
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
— William J. Clinton
How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve?
— Daniel Handler
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
— Charlie Chaplin
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
— Patricia Ireland
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
— Antonio Gramsci
There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.
— Paul Virilio
Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
— G.K. Chesterton
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
— Howard Zinn
I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.
— Milan Kundera
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
— G.K. Chesterton
When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.
— Jennifer Bosworth
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.
— Victor Hugo
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
— John Ortberg
Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.
— Cathy Burnham Martin
And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
— Jeff Lindsay
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
— George Will
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
— William Shakespeare
Every swamp has a silted lining.
— Brian Spellman
Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.
— Peter David
In my heart's most secret place,I pity them as angels do. — Sara Teasdale
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
— Francis Parker Yockey
Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.
— Narendra Modi
Pessimism is a waste of time.
— Norman Cousins
Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.
— Immortal Technique
If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.
— Herman Melville
People always switched on turn me off.
— Brian Spellman
If you only go around once in life, then why has that one gone around more than once?
— Brian Spellman
Insufficient nourishment in the early morning leads to pessimism and doubts.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.
— Brian Spellman
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.
— Andrew Mellon
Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
My fear of the future, she says, has not yet failed.
— Jenny Erpenbeck
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
— Margaret Mead
Who gathers the withered rose?
— William Faulkner
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
— Bruce Springsteen
Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
— Ellen Glasgow
If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.
— Sarah Dessen
In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.
— Abel Aganbegyan
Sometimes the greatest scientific breakthroughs happen because someone ignores the prevailing pessimism.
— Nessa Carey
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
— Steve Toltz
Pessimism never won any battle.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Acceptance doesn't mean masochistic pessimism, but joyful support of and participation in the great cosmic drama.
— Nathan J. Johnson
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
— Jean Rostand
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
— Criss Jami
I've been told I'm a glass half-empty sort of person.
— Maria Malonzo
I like it when pessimism goes unrewarded.
— Stephenie Meyer
When people run in circles it's a very very ... mad world.
— Tears For Fears
Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.
— Peter David
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
— Robert Orben
It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.
— Gillian Flynn
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
— Henry David Thoreau
How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any better? You mean I could sink even lower? Oh joy!
— Richelle E. Goodrich
My life is so bad that it's worse than it really is.
— Brian Spellman
Open you eyes to the world around you.. Block out the screams of pessimism.. Release your inhibitions!
— Nike Thaddeus
pessimism works because it's self-fulfilling: if you're a slacker with low expectations, they'll probably be met.
— Peter Thiel
We're all free and equal to die like dogs
— Peter Weiss
Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.
— Daniel Willey
I am not romantic. I am stripped of romance as bare as the white tenters in that field are of cloth.
— Charlotte Bronte
I'm all groan up in America.
— Brian Spellman
Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.
— Marty Rubin
Once is never. Twice is always.
— James S.A. Corey
Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.
— Fatema Mernissi
The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Little Pessimism in life reminds of staying alive and not wandering in a fairy land.
— Vikram Adhikari
Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.
— Edmund Campion
It is possible for things to get worse without limit.
— Herbert R.J. Grosch
We must not let ourselves fall into the vortex of pessimism. Faith can move mountains!
— Pope Francis
That's art. Nothing is for everybody.
— Brian Spellman
Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.
— Jon Meacham
The shot glass is half drunk.
— Brian Spellman
Simplicity starts in the heart, away from negativity and pessimism.
— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
— George Orwell
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire
Pessimism is a primary source of passivity,
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The pursuit of the impossible through the useless.
— Gabriel De Tarde
It's not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it's a lack of faith within me.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
