Quotes About Pessimism

The historical pessimist worries that his own society is about to destroy itself, the cultural pessimist concludes that it deserves to be destroyed.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

A mí no me mueve el amor por la humanidad, sino el desprecio hacia ella.

Bullshit, as usual

that there is no drug as powerful as hope, that the slightest sign of pessimism in the face or words of a doctor can cost his patient his life.

I'm rarely optimistic.

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

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.

Hope is the denial of reality.

How many pessimists does it take to change a lightbulb? Never mind. Nobody would get the joke anyway.

The world is filled half with evil and half with good. We can tilt it forward so that more good runs into our minds, or back, so that more runs into this.

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

He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.

?i optimistul ?i pesimistul sunt utili societ??ii. Optimistul a inventat avionul, iar pesimistul para?uta.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!

We're all fucked. It helps to remember this.

Scratch a cynic and you'll find a disillusioned idealist. And the fire never goes out completely

One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.