Quotes About Pessimism

A veces pienso que mi incapacidad para creer atrae la desgracia.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.†

It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travellers. The sensible approach would be to expect the worst, the very worst; that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows, with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory.

That could be a good sign, right?" "Sure," I said. It was a terrible sign.

there's the right kind of unrealistic and the wrong kind of unrealistic.

Moon didn't find any of this very encouraging

They ranged from bleakly depressing (due to an excess of realism) to highly unlikely (due to an excess of optimism).

when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.

My motto: "Expect the worst and hope for the best.

Past and to come seem best things present worst.

I'm so unlucky that if I was to fall into a barrel of nipples I'd come out sucking my thumb.

I have my heart set on being unhappy so dont try and change my mind.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.

In times like these, I think it's a good policy to hope for the best, but expect the worst.

An optimist looks at a seed and sees a tree; a pessimist looks at a tree and sees a forest fire.

people often choose to expect the worst of an upcoming experience in hopes of creating a more favorable contrast between their expectations and reality.

Donna grew up with her parents arguing almost continually, and had consequently believed marriage was something that was not only inevitable, but also inevitably miserable.

Meanwhile the pessimism of Trump's revolution is intentional, impassioned, ascendant. They placed a huge bet on America's worst instincts, and won. And the first order of business will be to wipe out a national idea in which they never believed. Welcome to the end of the dream.

Trump doesn't happen in a country where things are going well. People give in to their baser instincts when they lose faith in the future. The pessimism and anger necessary for this situation has been building for a generation, and not all on one side.

The belief that human nature is essentially corrupt taints our vision of life with pessimism and makes us question the very basis of the search for happiness, that is, every human being's potential for perfection.

Like the world had met her low expectations.

The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.

The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so the present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now. I'm the only one who does.