Pessimistic Quotes · Page 6

“If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism”

— J.M.Coetzee

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

— Benjamin Graham

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

— Cyril Connolly

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

— Mike Judge

I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset.

— David Lowery

“To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the…

— Munia Khan

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

— James Huneker

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

— Nate Silver

“My father believed it was a cancerous lump, not because my mother was genetically prone to such a thing, but because he…

— Sarah Winman

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies…

— Jared Diamond

We all have negative days, but that doesn't mean we are pessimistic. We all do stupid things, but that doesn't mean we…

— Lindsey Stirling

To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it…

— Christina Romer

I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid…

— Sarah Vowell

When some people say only bad things consistently, it implies their unhappiness about their lives. They are thoroughly pessimistic as well. After…

— Chandrababu VS

The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to…

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.…

— Jonathan Schell

“reality usually delivers results a little worse than the 'worst-case scenario'. It's called the planning fallacy, and the best way to fix…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I focus most of my attention on Hillary Clinton and her disastrous policies. I mean, there's a real danger in this election.…

— Jeb Bush

I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's…

— Jackie Chan

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries,…

— Bjorn Lomborg

I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse…

— Cornel West

This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I…

— Woody Allen

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

— Michael Robotham

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is…

— Ron Currie Jr

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

— Juliette Lewis

“Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).”

— Claire

“While I may be pessimistic about parts of the business that support journalism, I’m optimistic about the robust survival of journalism in…

— George Brock

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

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hate being around depressing, pessimistic people...Ugh, stop complaining, smile and get over it.

— Anonymous

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it…

— Leo Tolstoy

I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather…

— Henry Kaufman

If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.

— Mara Liasson

“The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.”

— David McRaney

“Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their…

— Anonymous

“We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.”

— Samuel Beckett

“I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.”

— Josh Cathey