Quotes About Pessimism

Actually, how I am a defensive pessimist. I always assume the worst, so if the reality is even a wee bit better than my disaster scenario, it's a cause for celebration.

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

Hope for the best, expect the worst. Life is a play, we're unrehearsed.

Os desafios são maiores que a esperança? Mas nós não podemos senão ser optimistas e fazer aquilo que os brasileiros chamam de levantar, sacudir a poeira e dar a volta por cima. O pessimismo é um luxo para os ricos.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage — so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old. — GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos

The myth of worldly decline can seem old-fashioned, darkly pessimistic, and deeply discouraging when compared to the tales of upward evolution and unending progress. Yet this world is essentially a place of mystery and what looks darkest at the beginning can have bright threads hidden within. Conversely, things that seem most positive can be found to have a dark shadow that eventually comes to the light of day and obscures what seemed so bright to begin with.

People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Cynicism is romanticism turned sour.

The typical Spetsnaz soldier is a skeptic, a cynic, and a pessimist. He believes in the depravity of human nature, and knows – from his own experience – that, in extreme conditions, man becomes a beast. He does not believe in justice, goodness, or humanity. He exists in a state of complete freedom – in which he fears nobody, trusts no one at all, and would not ask anyone for anything. Especially mercy.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. —SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

the word humanism made me want to vomit

Ninguna civilización, ninguna época han sido capaces de desarrollar en los hombres tal cantidad de amargura. Desde este punto de vista, vivimos tiempos sin precedentes. Si hubiera que resumir el estado mental contemporáneo en una palabra yo elegiría, sin dudarlo, amargura.

Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn't matter how brave you are, or how reserved, or how much you've developed a sense of humour, you still end up with your heart broken. That's when you stop laughing.

Je ne suis ni optimiste, ni pessimiste. Je suis un tragique qui voit le réel tel qu'il est.

Pessimism is like optimism, only less dangerous.

Devórate! El que devora goza, pero no se harta de recordar el acabamiento de sus goces y se hace pesimista; el que es devorado sufre, y no se harta de esperar la liberación de sus penas y se hace optimista. Devórate a ti mismo, y como el placer de devorarte se confundirá y neutralizará con el dolor de ser devorado, llegarás a la perfecta ecuanimidad de espíritu, a la ataraxia; no serás sino un mero espectáculo para ti mismo.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill." ? Mike Royko

Catastrophizing is my general approach to all social events: how, when, and why it will implode are the first things I think about

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.