Quotes About Pessimism

Cioran escribe que «sólo se suicidan los optimistas, los optimistas que ya no logran serlo. Los demás, no teniendo ninguna razón para vivir, ¿por qué la tendrían para morir?»

It is because I reject lies and running away that I am accused of pessimism; but this rejection implies hope — the hope that truth may be of use. And this is a more optimistic attitude than the choice of indifference, ignorance or sham.

Oh, these splinters of hope that pierce my heart every now and then, more wounding than despair itself!

Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse. (Mom - to Lara Lington)

Not to be born at all Is best, far best that can befall, Next best, when born, with least delay. To trace the backward way.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other

Life sucks, then you die.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

Because whatever we focus on in life grows. Focus on the bad and it is multiplied, it's everywhere (watch the news tonight if you don't believe me. Reporters are experts at this). Focus on the good and it expands, it's all around.

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

6. On the Gift of Pessimism: Insights from the Geographies

we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die of euphoria.

Rudge was not a pessimist, but he'd lived long enough to know that hope had to be kept on a short leash.

Negative mind or mindset will hardly give you positive result. Thus, you've got to be positive-minded rather than negative-minded, come what may.

Thinking negatively rather than positively is synonymous with sowing tares and yet expecting to harvest maize or corn someday. Yes! that is just what it is like. Therefore, introspect your thoughts and then think positively at all times and never negatively. -Emeasoba George

Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now.