Pessimism Quotes · Page 23

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

— Jacques Barzun

“If you only go around once in life, then why has that one gone around more than once?”

— Brian Spellman

Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

— Jay Carr

I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken.

— Jon Richardson

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

— Winston Churchill

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

— Evan Esar

Life has a funny way of working out when you start to believe it never will.

— Anonymous

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without…

— J. Irwin Miller

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then,…

— Samuel Ullman

“Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.”

— King Michael of Romania

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person…

— KT Tunstall

I can work with skeptics - cynics are a little bit harder because they already have their mind made up. There's nothing…

— Tyler Henry

There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived…

— Moby

“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Worry is a massive waste of time and energy. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and hinder…

— Ritu Ghatourey

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both…

— Ralph Waldo Trine

Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies…

— Gary Zukav

“As a result, we are wired for a “negativity bias”—a tendency to react to negative stimuli more intensely than positive experiences. This…

— S.J. Scott

“His cynicism - a veteran's cynicism - was a thing that disturbed him all the time. It seemed to him after the…

— David Guterson

“Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists…

— David Foster Wallace

“We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization...In this, our main obligation is to establish arbitrary enclaves of order and…

— Norbert Wiener

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't…

— Karl Pilkington

“A Course in Miracles rightly points out that, whenever you are unhappy, there is the unconscious belief that the unhappiness “buys” you…

— Eckhart Tolle

I cant do anything other than wait for you. I feel like I keep shrinking and I am useless existence in the…

— Anonymous

Pessimists have already begun to worry about what is going to replace automation

— John Tudor

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

— Jim Rohn

If there was a place called Cynic, I would be its mayor, its MP and have keys to the town.

— Simon Jordan

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at…

— Bob Newhart

I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

— Barbara De Angelis

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

— Germany Kent

“The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

“The truth is, there is nothing wrong with the world. In a greater scheme of things, negativity is as useful as positivity.”

— Talidari

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

— Boris Johnson

Life is a gift for an optimist, punishment for a pessimist, and an opportunity for an opportunist

— 5h45hvut

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

— George W. Bush

The worst person to be around is the one who complains about everything and appreciates nothing.

— Anonymous

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

— Nick Bostrom

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side

— Molly Ivins