Pessimism Quotes

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

My pessimism has never been flabby.

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

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

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

Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism. We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best.

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.

Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.

Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is, " said Martin.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.

Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.