Quotes About Pessimism

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.

I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

I'm a total pessimist.

I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

I'm a pessimist.

I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the next thing right.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.

This is what old guys do. They get dark and pessimistic.

I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

I'm very pessimistic.

The '80s have been so much doom and gloom. We've become very pessimistic.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.