Quotes About Pessimism

Things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now

They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.

In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a Kalashnikov.

I do have faith in humanity but I don't have faith in humans.

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

You cant live a positive life around negative people.

People ask me if I believe in forever and I can't help but sit back and laugh because with the way my life is going, i don't even believe in tomorrow..

Having a pessimistic outlook on life rather than an optimistic outlook is more realistic.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Borrow money from pessimists...they don't expect it back.

The pesimist says: it cannot get any worse. The optimist joyfully exclaims: yes, it can!

Human life must be some form of mistake

Life is just a bowl of pits.

A negative mind will never give a positive life.

Life is what you are able to make of it, you have the choice to think and act positive, while you may also choose to think and act negatively as well.

Good things can be bad if you look at the dark side. Bad things can be good if you look at the bright side.

The problem with the best moment in your life is that every other moment is worse

Hope is the denial of reality. - Raistlin

Always your mind goes to the worst, Mam, and the worst very seldom happens.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.