Quotes About Pessimism

Well, I'm not that much into ideals. I can't see the point of it.

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

Life is rubbish," he muttered. "The world's a bordello. People are swindlers…

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

I BELIEVE IN THE 50-PERCENT THEORY. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they are worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

files in the McNamara study offices, I had discovered that this assumption was mistaken. Every one of these crucial decisions was secretly associated with realistic internal pessimism, deliberately concealed from the public, just as in 1964–65.

Being pessimistic is almost always a recipe for low levels of what psychologists call "subjective well-being." It's also a detriment in most professions. But as Martin Seligman has written, "There is one glaring exception: pessimists do better at law.

I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

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

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

My father would say things that make no sense, like, "If I were the last person on earth, some moron would turn left in front of me."

because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

Worrying is stupid, it's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

I see no happy ending with your friendship in the future...It'll never get better.

Life sucks, and then you die.

All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.