Quotes About Pessimism

I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack the code of technology and bring forth a future techno utopia.

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.

Alles ist Mist. Aber dann möchte man sich manchmal auf die Erde setzen und sich vor Freude ins Hemd weinen.

The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The Intelligent Investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

Un vaso medio vacío de vino, es también uno medio lleno; pero una mentira a medias, de ningún modo es una media verdad.

Raccontami una storia, Pew. Che storia, piccola? Una a lieto fine? Non ne troverai una in tutto il mondo. Nessun lieto fine, dunque? Nessuna fine.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

My personality is such that I mostly tend to imagine the worst case scenario, which stresses me out a lot.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

I've never been an optimist.

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

Americans like optimists and shun 'doomsayers.'

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.

I'm not optimistic.

I'm so optimistic, it's depressing.

I assume that the worst will happen. So I'm never optimistic.