Quotes About Pessimism

It's my perspective: gloom and doom.

Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.

This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires.

The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

They had no confidence in themselves and even less in their own kind.

Hidden beneath localism's DIY attitude is a deep pessimism: it assumes we can't make large-scale, collective social change," worries Sharzer.

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other books. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.

That's one of the things I like about Mary Lou. She's willing to believe the worst about anyone.

I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.

You know I'm never happy. I'm not happy, unless I'm miserable.

Nobody has a completely happy life, unless you're completely imbecilic. Life is mostly pretty awful.

I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do they see opportunity as essentially everywhere and unlimited? It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

I really didn't think this was going to be a success. We did the first three episodes and I said to Adam, 'I can't see this going anywhere. I've already used up all my urban legends.'

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.