Quotes About Pessimism

Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old observation based on human experience.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

I'm an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

And truthfully, when microbiologists talk amongst ourselves, off the record after a few glasses of wine, the optimists admit their optimism is more wishful thinking than science." "What do the pessimists do?" "The pessimists just keep drinking until they pass out.

Graças a Churchill, não foi a Alemanha que passou a dominar a Europa, mas sim os Estados Unidos e a Rússia. Graças a Churchill, o fascismo deixou de desempenhar qualquer papel significativo no mundo, ficando o liberalismo e o socialismo a travar a luta pela primazia na política interna dos países. (...) Churchill não desejava grande parte destes cenários, embora aceitasse como mal menor num contexto mais pessimista.

La segunda tentación consistía en la amargura, en el propio abandono masoquista al odio, al sufrimiento y a un pesimismo sin barreras.

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

They knew only how to see what was wrong in their lives and in the world and never what was right. And that was precisely what she was doing now when thinking of them, Gwen realized with a mental shake of the head. Negativity could be frighteningly contagious.

Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)

Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

There are also things you do not want to say, as mentioned in the last chapter with pessimistic, judgmental, and negative statements because they will put the person on the defense.

Never trust someone who isn't miserable at least half of the time.

Never trust someone who isn't miserable at least half of the time. That's my motto.