Quotes About Pessimism

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Satire today has become a flat 'tyre'.

False hope really makes you cynical.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

False hope is worse than despair.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Cynicism is a disease. Optimism is the cure.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.