Quotes About Pessimism

Amos was not merely an optimist; Amos willed himself to be optimistic, 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.

Amos willed himself to be optimistic, 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.

I am incredibly cynical, and I don't think that's something people would guess. People think I'm all positive, but I'm a skeptic.

When you play a long time and you get a little older, you can get a little skeptical and become a little bit of a pessimist, and that experience plays against you.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

I think I have an inbuilt British skepticism.

I love depressing movies and depressing books.

I really hate to be Debbie Downer right now, because everyone would love to say, "Yeah, we're finally doing something on climate!

There isn't always an absolute right way and a wrong way to do things, but there usually is a better way, a high-percentage way. The positive thinker generally feels that his way will be the right way and nothing will go wrong, if he just believes. The negative thinker disbelieves. He takes every precaution to prevent the wrong thing from happening, and in doing so has a much better chance of things turning out right in the end.

if you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best... and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.

Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

16 But cynicism is always the indication of a mental chaos, or at least a mental disjunction and lack of unity.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Poate c? omul este r?u din fire È™i genele sale, cu trecerea secolelor, s-au modificat în ceva È™i mai r?u...

The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past--a combination of both.

I don't hide from unpleasant possibilities," the Somber Knight replied. "I embrace them. Some call it pessimism. I see it as an advantage.

He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

It is not at all polite to point out a crusty old pessimist's dark inner secret.

Worry is described as a chain of negative thoughts about bad things that might happen in the future.