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Quotes About Pessimism

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
~ Murray Kempton
The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.
~ Frank Zappa
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
~ Shimon Peres
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ Winston Churchill
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
~ Oscar Wilde
Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.
~ Joyce Meyer
I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.
~ Dennis Miller
Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.
~ Bikram Choudhury
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
~ Susan Jeffers
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
~ Harvey Mackay
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
~ George Meredith
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
~ Grace Paley
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
~ Herbert Read
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
~ Bob Brown
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
~ William James
All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
~ Alexander Pope
To live with fake positive thoughts is suicide, but living with negative all your life is just preparing the trigger for to get shoot!
~ Deyth Banger
The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.
~ Thomas A. Buckner
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ L. P. Jacks
In the long run the pessimist may be proved to be right but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
~ Daniel L. Reardon
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
~ William Beveridge
Staying positive and remaining hopeful even during stressful periods leads to greater happiness. Guarded optimism is better than pessimism.
~ William D. Danko
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
~ William F. Buckley