Pessimistic Quotes

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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

I don't feel like promising big things to my fans. I'm not thinking about victory at all. I'll do my best to get on the podium at least, although I must admit I feel fairly pessimistic.

Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.

I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

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.

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!