Quotes About Pessimism

My problem is that I'm negative - I come from Romania. Romanians are a little bit negative in thinking. Everyone knows that. That's normal here.

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Richard, aside from hanging out with Mike, became a loner. He didn't trust people or like them particularly. He perceived society as unfair, vicious, and hostile.

The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he's the one to fix it.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

one benefit of being a depressive pessimist, which is the propensity to laugh in dark times.

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

I asked her, Are you an optimist or a pessimist? She looked at her watch and said, I'm optimistic. Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon. Why do beautiful songs make you sad? Because they aren't true. Never? Nothing is beautiful and true. She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, You sound just like Dad.

Are you an optimist or a pessimist? I can't remember. Which? Do you know what those words mean? Not really. An optimist is positive and hopeful. A pessimist is negative and cynical. I'm an optimist. Well, that's good, because there's no irrefutable evidence. There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to.

The middle was where it was too easy to be lazy and cynical at the same time.

There is no tragedy so utter that a Belgian, with the best will in the world, can't make worse.

Good morning, Eeyore," shouted Piglet. "Good morning, Little Piglet," said Eeyore. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he. "Not that it matters," he

Eeyore nodded gloomily at him. "It will rain soon, you see if it doesn't," he said.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell.

Since the chain reaction is circular, the depression becomes progressively worse. The various symptoms--sadness, decreased physical activity, sleep disturbance--feeds back into the psychological system. Hence, as he experiences sadness, his pessimism leads him to conclude, "I shall always be sad."

Your worst pessimist is, after all, an optimist with regard to himself.

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

The whole history of the debate about life beyond Earth is an argument between optimists and pessimists. It's a debate that began with the opposition between Aristotle and Epicurus, extended through the 1800s to Flammarion versus Whewell, and took its modern turn with the Drake equation, through which the battle between pessimism and optimism became quantitative.

I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world.

My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.