Quotes About Pessimism

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

Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

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

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Ignore cynicism, appreciate criticism, and embrace optimism.

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world.

Some say the glass is half full and blush, Some say it's half empty and sink, I feel you are in the midst of, reaching out for another awesome drink!

Little Pessimism in life reminds of staying alive and not wandering in a fairy land.

He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.