Quotes About Pessimism

I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments... Always on to the next and never in the moment.

I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news.

Drake always thinks the glass is half full. Me, I think the glass is half full of poison.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway." Either way, nothing happens. —YVON CHOUINARD,7 founder of Patagonia

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway." Either way, nothing happens.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway.

Cynicism is a disease that robs people of the gift of life.

I have been called an irrepressible optimist. The opposite of an irrepressible optimist is a repressive pessimist

If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end. If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

The very act of enunciating the most pessimistic system attests to a fundamental optimism and hope for progress beyond the status quo. Though the good may be impossible to realize, it is also impossible to abandon entirely. The production of knowledge itself points, often despite itself, toward a better future.

The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically.

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

JACK: For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. ALGERNON: My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

Optimism is cowardice .

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.

Schopenhauer says that all the suffering in the world can't be mere chance. Must be meant. He says life's a mixture of suffering and boredom. You've

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short . It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it?

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the last six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it?

Weltschmerz

some studies have found that pessimists smoke and drink more, and exercise less, than optimists, and are generally much more careless about their health

Un estudio evaluó el grado de optimismo o pesimismo de ciento veintidós hombres que habían sufrido un primer ataque cardíaco. Ocho años más tarde, veintiuno de los veinticinco más pesimistas habían muerto, mientras que sólo habían fallecido seis de los veinticinco más optimistas. Este

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.