Pessimistic Quotes · Page 2

“Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.”

— Brian Spellman

This is what old guys do. They get dark and pessimistic.

— Charles Murray

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Claude Chabrol

I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

— Frances Moore Lappé

High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

— Walter O'Brien

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The '80s have been so much doom and gloom. We've become very pessimistic.

— Dave Clark

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have…

— George Harrison

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to…

— Albert Camus

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

— Shmuley Boteach

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

— Jane McGonigal

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

— Peter Thiel

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

— John Hurt

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am…

— Hans Hofmann

I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that…

— Patrick Collison

An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging…

— Alberto Villoldo

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even…

— Paul Hawken

“Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of…

— David Levithan

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This…

— John Vane

I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside…

— Ted Cruz

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last.…

— January Jones

“Know what you can change from what you can’t, and you’ll live a happier, more peaceful life. This view is not pessimistic—it…

— Dominique Francon

I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation…

— Chinua Achebe

“Pessimism is a very easy way out when you’re considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life.…

— Robertson Davies

I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep…

— Jonathan Trigell

First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view…

— Walpola Rahula

“Though anger seems a pessimistic response to a situation, it is at root a symptom of hope: the hope that the world…

— Alain de Botton

In pessimistic moments, when I was trudging London in search of an employer wanting to make use of such talents as I…

— Christopher Robin Milne

“The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is by no means a sign of great and terrible misery. The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Anonymous

“Everybody has the same chance but you need to be rich...”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“When you are nothing but pessimistic you are the enabling force of impossibility.”

— Bryant McGill

I tend to be very pessimistic and not let myself enjoy things.

— Cole Escola

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

— Eugene Ionesco

“Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine. Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.”

— Jonathan Heatt

“No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.”

— Cathie Linz

“They Have a Negative Attitude and Pessimistic Outlook”

— Mike Weinberg