Pessimism Quotes · Page 34

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

— Spike Lee

Keeping to myself staying blessed not giving a damn Ignoring negativity living my life.

— Anonymous

“We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an…

— Paul Hoffman

“Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.”

— Erika Lopez

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

— Voltaire

I know how tempting such cynicism may be. But I still think the cynics are wrong.

— Barack Obama

“Say NO to negativity and say YES to positivity. Negativity has no place in your life.”

— Stephanie Lahart

“The pessimist says, ‘It can’t get any worse!’ And the optimist replies, ‘Oh yes it can!”

— Madeleine Urban

When you doubt and have negative thoughts you become your own enemy. Believe in yourself and push yourself to greater heights with…

— Benjamin Valadez

We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset.

— Alexander De Croo

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear…

— Jeff Bridges

It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm…

— Jim Gaffigan

“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I've always fed off negativity and wanting people to hate me. That attitude really fueled me for my entire career. So being…

— Dean Ambrose

[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse.…

— Samuel Beckett

A Pessimist Sees Only The Dark Side Of The Clouds And Mopes. A Philosopher Sees Both Sides And Shrugs.. But An Optimist…

— Pacifiersucker

“In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.…

— Ben Okri

Sometimes it can get you wrapped up in the negativity, when that's never been what our community is about. It's always been…

— Alex Consani

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than…

— Emile Durkheim

“A handsome young lady of quality,' a parable in Mahaparinirvana-sutra tells us, 'who carries with her an immense treasure is ever accompanied…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never…

— Marisha Pessl

“All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism…

— Rachel Kushner

Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them, Others try to block the memories and just delete them. But I keep…

— Immortal Technique

“Michael’s a good cat but he tries so hard to keep it real that he can seem full of negativity,”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

— Diablo Cody

“Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self- fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.”

— Evelin Lindner

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

— Margaret Mead

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

— Tim Tebow

I know there is a certain amount of negativity I have to deal with.

— Chrissy Teigen

Life is too short to waste on negativity, live your life. Never try to impress your friends. Reach your goals.

— Reamogetse Eister

“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

— Robin Sharma

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.'

— Nell Scovell

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism.

— Sadiq Khan

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

— Paul Hawken

“Optimistic buyers of stocks are bulls, pessimistic sellers are bears.”

— Niall Ferguson

Remember; the only way to fight negativity is with positivity. Stay focused on the dreams.

— Jared Leto