Quotes About Pessimism

You haven't entered a new age at all but one of upscale nihilism, deluxe nihilism.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Even as a kid, I always had the ability to see down the line to where trouble lay, or truth. George used to complain that I expected the worst out of life, but it wasn't that. I simply recognized that just because the sun was shining one day didn't mean it would the next. Frost would come, and so would snow. The fact of rain did not rule out the possibility of drought. You could call it pessimism. I based my attitudes on what I saw in the world around me. Not what I dreamed up.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Always expect the worst…and then you might be pleasantly surprised

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

All right, fine," she told Deep. "But just because you're a pessimist doesn't mean you have to be an asshole." Deep frowned. "Excuse me? A what? I'm not completely familiar with Earth vernacular yet." Lock grinned. "I think you've just been insulted, brother. And by one of the elite, no less. You should feel honored." "By

And as my old friend Irene Kamp used to quote some French guy who said, 'Everything will work out, but badly.

Pessimism and optimism often come as a pair. In Adorno's case, his deep pessimism about the contemporary social world is coupled with a strong optimism about human potential. In fact, it is the latter which explains his negative views about the contemporary social world and his demand that we should resist and change it

inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.

Recette pour aller mieux. Répéter souvent ces trois phrases : le bonheur n'existe pas. L'amour est impossible. Rien n'est grave.

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

God is at work in the midst of crisis. In the midst of the problems, pessimism, and frustrations of our day, God is doing His own work. Let us realize that there are certain things we cannot do. Let us be faithful in the things He has called us to do.

When two pessimists get together, it results in an endless cycle of pointless second-guessing. Very interesting.

They do not have big ideas or a grandiose vision of what America should be like. They pretty much just love to hate.

It's grown people who always believe the worst

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.