Pessimism Quotes

Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.

Humans will always endure suffering - even accepting the fact that we're going to die will cause us suffering, and from that stems a little pessimism and negativity that all of us are susceptible to.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Enough to know no knowing.

You can find negative people everywhere you go. The last thing in the world you want to do is talk to them, because all they're gonna do is cement pessimism in you!

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Pessimism is a waste of time.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

Pessimism is my default setting.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

See the moon? It hates us.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

I like it when pessimism goes unrewarded.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

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

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

The Democrats have always owned the pessimism. It's just the way it's worked out.