Pessimism Quotes · Page 28

It can be actually quite cynical to go, 'Isn't it nice to be nice to people?'

— Brett Goldstein

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

— Sean O Faolain

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

— Laurence J. Peter

Practice justice, mercy and humility rather than cynicism, arrogance & judgmentalism.

— Anonymous

Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

— Pope Francis

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

— Herman Melville

There is only one reason for sadness, and that is the lack of ability to find happiness in everything.

— Anonymous

“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always…

— Clarence Thomas

Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can…

— Boyd Holbrook

Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce…

— Martin Heidegger

“Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’…

— Steven Galloway

As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in…

— Denis Hayes

If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would…

— Stephen Fry

If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your…

— Dorothy Rowe

You have to learn to deflect so much negativity that's thrown at you when so many people don't understand the negativity you…

— Matt Rife

“According to kabbalistic teaching, the origin of all negativity is the desire to receive for ourselves alone. This self-serving desire, in any…

— Michael Berg

“In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did…

— Lucy Dacus

“I am stirred, even overwhelmed each time I happen upon an innocent person. Where does he come from? What is he after?…

— Emil M. Cioran

“If there is anything in the life of any culture or period that gives good grounds for alarm, it is the rise…

— Marilynne Robinson

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are…

— Stephen Colbert

“Curbing negativity is also about owning up to one’s responsibilities, and not passing the buck. It is a usual tendency to look…

— Tapan Singhel

“People keep talking about this unfolding. I can't trust the unfolding, okay? If there is some higher power making origami out of…

— Wendy Wunder

I am ready to portray any kind of role that includes negativity, if it is a challenging one.

— Sourabh Raj Jain

We all deal with our inner pessimist. We just try to find as much positivity as we can find.

— Eddy Alvarez

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

— Jan Smuts

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

— Katharine Whitehorn

If negativity starts to cloud your thoughts, get on your hands & knees and pull out the weeds.

— John Addison

When you start being positive nothing but negativity starts coming your way.

— Anonymous

“Cynicism is like gastro: it goes through your whole system and makes you shitty.”

— John Marsden

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at…

— Paul Auster

“Let the positivite in to be in a good one and Ignore the negativity in life thrown to you. :)”

— Maria Aiza

Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.

— Mason Cooley

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

— Vladimir Nabokov

It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

— Lemmy

Sometimes, I'm afraid to be happy because every time I'm happy, something goes wrong, and hurts me.

— Anonymous

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

Don't be pessimistic Because, today, the sun hasn't shone It probably won't next year And you'll then be 61

— John Walter Bratton

“If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.”

— Bryant McGill