Quotes About Pessimism

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Murphy was an optimist.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

Hay que contraponer, al pesimismo de la inteligencia, el optimismo de la voluntad (Gramsci).

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. A personal God is a disappointing God; and Job, Omar Khayyam, Euripides, Palladas, Voltaire and Professor Housman will denounce him. With Buddhism, Taoism, Quietism, and the God of Spinoza there can be no disappointment, because there is no Appointment.

I live in a world of worst-case scenarios.

Pankaj Mishra

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist," said journalist Clare Boothe Luce, "is that the pessimist is usually better informed.

Negative people see life as a series of obligations and hassles. For

think things are usually bad one way or another," he said. "It might be that only us older folk can see it.

I think things are usually bad one way or another," he said. "It might be that only us older folk can see it.

Life sucks. This is news why?

I'm an intelligent pessimist, a pessimist who has occasional flashes of optimism. Nearly everything happens for the worst, but not always, you see, nothing is ever always, but i'm always expecting the worst, and when the worst doesn't happen, I get so excited I begin to sound like an optimist.

I would not go so far as to say that he was a good person … but Boris had his own set of rules and he stuck to them. Unlike everyone else I had met here, he managed to flat above his circumstances … It was as if he had imagined every possibility in advance, and therefore he was never surprised by what happened. Inherent in his attitude was a pessimism so deep, so devastating, so fully in tune with the facts, that it actually made him cheerful.

Pangloss is an idiot optimist, and I'm an intelligent pessimist, meaning a pessimist who has occasional flashes of optimism. Nearly everything happens for the worst, but not always, you see, nothing is ever always, but I'm always expecting the worst, and when the worst doesn't happen, I get so excited I begin to sound like an optimist.

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

You're such an optimist Kane -- that's your problem. You only end up disappointed.

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don't have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven't got a heart.

if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn't make sense to be hopeful.

Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping