Pessimism Quotes

Negativity is never an option

— Steve Lopez

Pessimism is a waste of time

— Norman Cousins

Enough to know no knowing.

— Samuel Beckett

I'm a pessimist.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

I'm a total pessimist.

— Thomas Middleditch

I'm a cynical idealist.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

— Elliott Abrams

I'm a hopeful cynic.

— Tracy Chapman

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

— Anita Roddick

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

— Eyedea

With a lot of success comes a lot of negativity.

— Beyonce Knowles

“I'm not a cynic. I am a realist.”

— Sonya Watson

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

— Karen Marie Moning

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

— Sarah McLachlan

“Life is too short to dwell in the negativity all the time.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

It seems to me that the harder I try the harder I fall.

— Anonymous

Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Life is an endurance race that is always devouring your soul from the inside and out. In the end the race is…

— Jeremy Limn

I'm scared that if I let myself be happy for even one moment that the worlds gonna come crashing down.

— Nina Dobrev

“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

— Chris Hadfield

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”

— Alphonse Karr

“Pessimists can be such bores, and it's lazy to believe the worst.”

— Paul Morley

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a…

— Agnes Repplier

The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep…

— Evgeny Morozov

I have tough skin. I don't really read any of the comments unless they are positive. I don't accept that much negativity…

— Scott Eastwood

“You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming…

— Amanda Palmer

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see…

— Vernon Howard

Negativity perpetuates itself, breeds dissatisfaction and clutters the mind. And when the mind is cluttered with negativity, happiness is much harder to…

— Rashida Rowe

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed…

— Stephen Colbert

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am…

— Vaclav Havel

“Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and…

— Matt Ridley

“They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type.…

— Olaf Stapledon

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply…

— Richard Rodriguez

“Logotherapy, keeping in mind the essential transitoriness of human existence, is not pessimistic but rather activistic. To express this point figuratively we…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Now, what is the left's worldview in general? What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude…

— Rush Limbaugh

“His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it before? You have? It's not going…

— Eudora Welty