Quotes About Pessimism

The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.

Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

We remember the sardonic war-time joke about the optimist and the pessimist. The optimist was the man who did not mind what happened so long as it did not happen to him. The pessimist was the man who lived with the optimist.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, Boy, the food at this place is really terrible. The other one says, Yeah, I know; and such small portions. Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

Eres un pesimista, ves siempre el vaso medio vacio! -No, lo veo medio lleno pero de veneno.

This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.

Muerte (Una comedia) Anna: Mientras no se trate de algo agradable, ningún momento es el adecuado

It's cruel to bring life into this terrible world.

Like Bertrand Russell, I feel a great sadness for the human race. Unlike Bertrand Russell, I can't do long division.

Some people see the glass half empty, some see it half full. I always saw the coffin half full.

Horrle was nodding gravely, humoring him, probably thinking that out of all these two hundred fun-loving people it was just his luck to have run into a doom merchant. McIntyre had committed the sin of pessimism, of course, forgetting, as a Brit, that out here optimism was more than a state of mind; optimism was a philosophy.

Optimists have more fun, milord," Yorick reminded him. "Yeah, because pessimists have made things safe for 'em.

nel pessimista si accordano una bontà inefficace e una cattiveria inappagata

No one has been so convinced as I of the futility of everything; and no one has taken so tragically so many futile things.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Pesimista con la razón, optimista con la voluntad.

the liberal believes in the permanence of humanity's imperfection, he resigns himself to a regime in which the good will be the result of numberless actions, and never the object of a conscious choice. Finally, he suscribes to the pessimism that sees, in politics, the art of creating the conditions in which the vices of men will contribute to the good of the state. —RAYMOND ARON, L'OPIUM

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

328An optimism which is exclusively built on evolution is always transmuted into pessimism if one ponders a little more deeply.

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that it is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.

Well, you know how it is, some people are born with sour temperaments and they use the misfortunes in their lives as an excuse for them.