Quotes About Pessimism

Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.

I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.

Pretty much any day is a good day to go to the ballpark, but that first day of the season is special. It's spring. The grass is green. Pessimism is impossible - at least, until the other team scores.

Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!

I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

She should have been used to disappointment by now, but pessimism wasn't normally her bag. Lisa would say Sami was a discouraged optimist. An oxymoron for sure.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." —Harry Truman Even

To have made up your mind from the beginning that everything people do is spoiled and bad and ugly. Really, I can't separate it from someone who believes in original sin. It's the new doctrine of original sin, environmentalism: the sins of the technological revolutions shall be visited upon the children until the nth generation. You believe the worst, so you never have to be disappointed. It's so cowardly, really.