Quotes About Pessimism

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

That there is little joy in the world is not just a view of things. Every benevolence is suspect. You finally figure out that the world does not have you in mind. It never did.

You always did think the worst. And was seldom disappointed.

It was far easier to believe in unhappiness than in happiness.

If only it wasn't so difficult. It was far easier to believe in unhappiness than in happiness.

He's a sucking chest wound of a human being.

However bad things seem to be, they can always get worse!

Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.

He rather hated hope. `Une immense espérance a traversé la terre', he read somewhere, and his comment was:`---and it's darned-well drowned everything worth having.

I don't believe in the world, not in money, nor in advancement, nor in the future of our civilization.

Pessimism all along the line. Absolutely. Mistrust in the fate of literature, mistrust in the fate of freedom, mistrust in the fate of European humanity, but three times mistrust in all reconciliation: between classes, between nations, between individuals. And unlimited trust only in IG Farben and the peaceful perfecting of the air force. But what now? What next?

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism—some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

All people are scum. No matter what they look like.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

One is not, my dear sir, a superior man merely because one sees the world in an odious light. One only hates mankind and life itself through failing to look deeply enough.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

We have no hope if we cannot prove uncle cynic wrong.

It is a question not of hope or despair, but of truth; not of optimism nor of Pessimism, but of wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.

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

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.