Quotes About Pessimism

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Para que lo sepas, Lenny, esta no es una cita —Trish dice. —Entonces, ¿qué es? —Soy yo sintiendo lástima por ti, porque eres un perdedor.

Some hopefuls believe that the world can be saved, but the cruel and twisted say never.

What else can go wrong," I grumbled, just as it began to rain.

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

After that exercise, the ship of my life might or might not be sailing on calm seas. The challenging days of my existence might or might not be bright and promising. From that encounter on, whether my days are stormy or sunny and if my nights are glorious or lonely, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If pessimism insists on occupying my thoughts, I remember there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

After that exercise, the ship of my life might or might not be sailing on calm seas. The challenging days of my existence might or might not be bright or promising. From that encounter on, whether my days are stormy or sunny and if my nights are glorious or lonely, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If pessimism insists on occupying my thoughts, I remember there is always tomorrow.

You're a hard-core cynic

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

I believe that I shall become a curmudgeon. Then at least I can complain, and it will be expected of me.

With every new wave of optimism or pessimism, we are ready to abandon history and time-tested principles, but we cling tenaciously and unquestioningly to our prejudices.    

El inversor inteligente es un realista que vende a optimistas y compra a pesimistas.

El mercado es un péndulo que oscila constantemente entre un optimismo insostenible (que hace que las acciones sean demasiado caras) y un pesimismo injustificado (que hace que sean demasiado baratas). El inversor inteligente es un realista que vende a optimistas y compra a pesimistas. E

Man's inclination to justice makes democracy possible; but man's capacity for injustice makes it necessary.' The optimism we need to prevent ourselves from destroying our own democratic freedoms and, indeed, our own human habitat must be based on reasoned pessimism.

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

Ser optimista o pesimista es cuestion de temperamento, no de razones.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible horrible.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.

It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork.

Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it.

Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs.

Woody Allen had it right: "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it's all over much too soon.

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.