Quotes About Pessimism

His planetary governors on Arrakis had cultivated a persistent pessimism to bolster their power base. They'd made sure that everyone on Arrakis, even the free-roaming Fremen, became familiar with numerous cases of injustice and insoluble problems; they had been taught to think of themselves as a helpless people for whom there was no succor.

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.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Don't be too optimistic, the light at the end of the tunnel might be a train.

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.

Según la visión pesimista, en las elecciones de 2018, como dice la fábula, la hormiga, por odio a la cucaracha, votó por el insecticida: murieron todos, hasta el grillo que se abstuvo. Yo no soy tan pesimista, pero esto es lo que se va a probar en las elecciones intermedias de 2021. Espero que en estos comicios próximos las hormigas no voten por el insecticida.

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

misanthropy, hatred of mankind, is the order of the day.

Il faut savoir allier le pessimisme de l´intelligence à l´optimisme de la volonté.

Of all the founders, Hamilton probably had the gravest doubts about the wisdom of the masses and wanted elected leaders who would guide them. This was the great paradox of his career: his optimistic view of America's potential coexisted with an essentially pessimistic view of human nature. His faith in Americans never quite matched his faith in America itself.

We people are just worms on top of it, worms on its fat, revolting carcass, eating its entrails and all its poisons … Nothing can help us, we were born rotten … There you have it!

Otimista é quem acha que tem que haver uma luz no fim deste túnel. Pessimista é o que não tem muita certeza de que isto é um túnel.

After the worst had passed Ian dried his eyes and spoke of philosophy. It's like the world is awesome? And also it sucks.

With my intellect I see cause for nothing but pessimism and even despair. But I can't settle for what my intellect tells me. That's not all of it.

You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.

If I have sinned so much, if I have been since then so solitary, if my soul has taken such a swirling and solitary movement, if I have doubted everyting, if I have been fatalist and have been a pessimistic child who awaits death every day and who almost seeks it out, if I have opened myself slowly and late to happiness, and if I am still a somber man incapable of laughing wholeheartedly it is because you left me . . .

Pessimistic thoughts will only yield trees unwilling to bear edible fruit. Optimistic thinking will always feed those who are willing to sit at your table".

Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.

To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

The worst disability in life is a bad attitude.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

For jaded people, the only pleasure left is to demolish others.