Quotes About Pessimism

The worst can always be true

don't believe in love. Or marriage.

Los pesimistas ven dificultades en cada oportunidad; los optimistas ven oportunidades en cada dificultad".

He soured on life some seconds after he was born and has made a profession of deteriorating ever since.

One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks.

It's already bad. I'm honestly not sure how much worse it's going to get. Notice that I didn't say couldn't get worse. It can always get worse. I know this. And thus I refuse to tempt fate. Superstitious -- probably. But magic exists. So does karma, and karma can be a bitch.

Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.

Humans are remarkably adaptable, and in some ways we adapt better to the worst-case scenario than to the idea that anything can be better. There is a full cup of fatalism in the recipe for Homo sapiens sapiens , and some of us are very much more comfortable with the world ending than it going on.

Een groot schrijver is altijd pessimist, want hij weet dat het leven moeilijk begint en slecht eindigt.

To that creature, being born, Its birthday is a day to mourn

Les hommes, qui sont malheureux par essence, veulent croire qu'ils le sont par accident.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

It is said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Both white and black women were more likely than their male counterparts to support Hillary Clinton—and in my observation, also more likely to believe that she couldn't win. Male and female black voters were more likely than white voters to support Obama and also to believe he couldn't win. Each group was made pessimistic by the depth of the bias they had experienced.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

God is bad, truth is a cheat, and life is a joke.

I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.

I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.