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The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.
— Regina Doman
Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.
— William T. Vollmann
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.
— Dennis Miller
If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.
— Bryant McGill
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
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
— Bell Hooks
I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.
— Stuart Hughes
I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
— Jon Anderson
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
— Gustave Flaubert
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
— Mignon McLaughlin
From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.
— Eduardo Galeano
I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.
— Milan Kundera
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic,
— Benjamin Graham
If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.
— Peter Thiel
Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.
— Shmuley Boteach
Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism
— J.M. Coetzee
I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.
— Lou Andreas-Salome
No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
— Cathie Linz
I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
— Octavia E. Butler
When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
— Marshall Brickman
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.
— Jonathan Harnisch
Don't be pessimisticBecause, today, the sun hasn't shone
It probably won't next year
And you'll then be 61 — John Walter Bratton
Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted.
— Israelmore Ayivor
I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
— Kim Jee-woon
Life is short unless agony is long.
— Brian Spellman
I'm not pessimistic about anything.
— Paul Watson
Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
— George Jones
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
— Robert M. Sapolsky
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
— Aldous Huxley
I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.
— Rebecca McNutt
I wanted to smack Logan over the head for his pessimistic attitude.
— Micalea Smeltzer
Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side.
— Peter Cundill
Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.
— Wolfgang Schauble
Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.
— Bernie Sanders
Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
— Mark Twain
I'm not negative, pessimistic, angry, antisocial or schizophrenic. I'm a writer, and entitled to all that with pride.
— Daniel Marques
They Have a Negative Attitude and Pessimistic Outlook
— Mike Weinberg
I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Everybody has the same chance but you need to be rich ...
— Hunter S. Thompson
The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
— Cornel West
I know it sounds a little pessimistic, but it's true. You'll never be done preparing, and you'll never be ready. None of us will.
— Creek Stewart
There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
— Bill Vaughan
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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
Sunshine gives me a headache
— Rainbow Rowell
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
— Albert Schweitzer
People think I'm all gloom and doom all the time. I'm not. I also have bad days where I'm pessimistic.
— Jarod Kintz
Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.
— Daniel Willey
I'm all groan up in America.
— Brian Spellman
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
— Isabel Allende
What a beautiful day to go to hell
— Ransom Riggs
Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss. — Alexander Pushkin
We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The optimist is a pessimist with a plan
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
— Jane McGonigal
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
— Nate Silver
Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.
— Albert Vigoleis Thelen
Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.
— Anthony Liccione
People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.
— Michael Robotham
I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.
— William Sanderson
Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.
— Brian Spellman
No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.
— Price Pritchett
Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.
— Paul Pearsall
Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.
— Kim Harrison
There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.
— William McFee
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
— Elmer Bernstein
Every swamp has a silted lining.
— Brian Spellman