Quotes About Pessimism

Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.

A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

In life's poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist's night and raises him the sunrise.

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

I drew on Under a Green Sky and The Medea Hypothesis, by the reliably pessimistic Peter Ward

This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal.

always remember that when things look darkest, they usually get considerably worse

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

Irrational optimism can be great; it's why only about 15 percent instead of 99 percent of humans get clinically depressed.

Miss Eliza was one of those people who give you the impression that life is indeed a vale of tears, and that a smile, never to speak of a laugh, is a waste of nervous energy truly reprehensible. The Andrew girls had been girls for fifty odd years and seemed likely to remain girls to the end of their earthly pilgrimage. Catherine, it was said, had not entirely given up hope, but Eliza, who was born a pessimist, had never had any.

Anne tried to picture Mrs. Skinner on speaking terms with romance and failed.

the loss of certainty as a child had prepared Clara to expect the worst;

Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

Sometimes it's not the light in a person that you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.

A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Nosotros, mientras tanto, vivimos en una era de miedo, negatividad y malas noticias. Las buenas noticias no venden porque no interesan a nadie.