Quotes About Pessimism

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

If days be good, they shall pass, which is a lowering thought. If they be bad, they shall pass, which is cheering.

Life sucks, then you die

Hodges remembers an old saying: even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass.

Whoever said misery loves company was full of shite. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong , however... that guy was onto something.

People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

There are two things that govern life.It is Positivity and Negativity.You can see life with a Positive eye or drag yourself into a Negative Action.

It's like he's determined not to see the good in anything.

esa tozuda negativa de la humanidad a intentar al menos obrar de un modo razonable.

NOCEBO: Latin for "I will harm"; a negative placebo; physical manifestation of pessimism; self-fulfilling prophecy of disbelief. In the nocebo effect, a bad result occurs without any physiological bias. In one study, women who believed they were more prone to heart disease were four times more likely to die of it than women with the same risk factors but without a pessimistic outlook.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

That's my core philosophy," he said. "The glass is either half-empty or broken.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Pessimism is not good for the soul." "I sold my soul years ago." "To whom?" "The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

And ice-cream cones,' she says. 'What is it with you and ice-cream cones?' He licks around the edge of his cone as he considers the question. 'I guess no one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.

N]o one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.

Relativismo, escepticismo y finalmente nihilismo tienen un tono devorador, porque de ellos emerge un hombre pesimista, desilusionado, indiferente a la verdad por comodidad, por no profundizar en cuestiones sustanciales. Así surge la idea del consenso como juez último: lo que diga la mayoría es la verdad.

the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

There's no hope for someone who doesn't even know what hope is

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.

There's nothing so bad that it can't grow worse. There's no limit to how bad things can be.

I think both optimism and pessimism are very boring outlooks. I like to know what's going on, and I like to tell myself that I can handle the worst, should my observations prove to be negative or unfavorable.