Quotes About Pessimism

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

The study, entitled Lashes—Back, Front and Sideways, warned that as populations becomes older and more diverse people become more pessimistic about race relations.93

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Even worse, they want to drag others down into their tomb. If you're hopeful and ambitious, they'll try to convince you your ideas are impossible. They'll say you're wasting your time.

ähnlich den Stimmen der Pessimisten, die keinen Sinn im Leben sehen, aber auch keinen im Selbstmord oder im Tod, keinen Sinn darin, zu fürchten, keinen Sinn darin, zu warten, keinen Sinn darin, zu fürchten, keinen Sinn darin, zu warten, keinen Sinn darin, zu denken; und doch tun sie nichts anderes als diese drei Dinge: fürchten, warten, denken, unaufhörlich denken.

Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 

every now and then I do think life is a crock, there's no getting around it. Basically, it's really just awful. I do think it's stupidity that makes the world go round. And if you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

Worriers are visionaries minus the optimism.

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

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.

Eres un pesimista», recuerdo que me dijo una vez, a lo que yo le respondí que sí, que lo era, pero que eso era una ventaja. -¿Por qué? -me dijo. - Porque siempre espero lo peor. Así, cada vez que no ocurre, me sorprendo. Quedo feliz. Y cuando ocurre, porque de que ocurre, ocurre, no me deprimo ni me decepciono. Es lo acostumbrado. Es lo normal. Es como es. Pero no necesariamente como deber ser.

P?rea s?-l considere tot mai mult pe Sergio un soi de pierde-var? din categoria trist? È™i inert?, un intelectual adic?, iar de data asta Sergio nu putea spune c? nu are dreptate, era într-adev?r un intelectual din cea mai rea spe??, credea, un om a c?rui inteligen?? nu avea nimic creativ, nici util, ci servea doar ca s?-l îmboln?veasc? È™i s?-l paralizeze ca o otrav? rafinat?.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

They were among the leaders of what I had begun to think of as "Team Apocalypse," the media outlets that – for reasons I could not fully understand – seemed committed to painting as bleak a picture of the coronavirus as possible.

I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.

Trebuie s? ai un spirit pesimist; cel optimist e lamentabil, grotesc ?i stupid. "Gânde?te pozitiv!" Cum adic?, s? gândesc în mod deliberat fals, numai ca s? am o stare pozitiv?, care s? plac? cui ?i cui s? fac? un bine? Trebuie s? fii apt s? prive?ti realitatea exact a?a cum e, frumoas? sau pocit?.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

In truth, if I were asked to say briefly what Pessimism is, I should say it is disappointed Egotism; and the description will hold good, whether we apply it to an individual, to a community, or to an age.

Our modern pessimists cannot see a tree, a flower, or a mountain, but straightway they drop into what I may call a falling sickness, and all the beauty of the woods, fields, and sky merely suggests to them a picturesque background for their own superior sighs and sorrows.

It will scarcely be doubted, therefore, that there does exist a real and a very grave danger lest Poetry should, in these perplexing and despondent days, not only be closely associated with Pessimism, but should become for the most part its voice and echo.

By nature, critical people are inclined to find fault or to judge others with severity and often too readily.