Quotes About Pessimism

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Next its gonna be jump off a cliff day.

right. For the sake of our survival, we must assume the worst. First, let me thank you. It's most fortunate

Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.

Art?k her ÅŸeyi biliyorlar. Kendilerine yalan söylendiÄŸini, bütün insanlar?n kötü olduÄŸunu ve alçakl?k edebileceÄŸini biliyorlar. Ana babalar?n? da sevmiyorlar art?k, onlara inanm?yorlar.

Gnostics (and Buddhists) have often been labeled pessimists and world haters because of their willingness to look the dark face of the world in the eye. Yet, both of these traditions affirm that there is a way out of suffering and ignorance, and that this way out involves an essential, salvific change in consciousness.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.""You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

People have misconstrued the pessimism and anger in our songs," Mould protested. "We're really the opposite of all that; we're not callous, insensitive people. But we're frustrated by the fact that most people seem to end up that way—hopeless, defeated. We're afraid of ending up that way ourselves, and that fear comes out in our songs.

It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all but indistinguishable from clairvoyance.

Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all but indistinguishable from clairvoyance. Kornblum

She could not help it. She had a catastrophic imagination; an air of imminent doom darkens much of even her sunniest work.

Whether you see the world as emergent or, deteriorating. We have long known that some people favor innovation and look positively toward the future while others are frightened of change and want to halt innovation.

Personally, I would never help mankind.

Amos was not merely an optimist. He willed himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it and the second time when it happens.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.