Pessimism Quotes · Page 35

When everything is finally okay and I'm happy I can't help but expect everything to fall apart.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Spike Lee

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.

— Robert Redford

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

— Anonymous

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

— Erika Lopez

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

— Paul Hoffman

Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If everyone you've loved has used you, hurt you or disrespected you, you begin to think that love is supposed to hurt…

— Anonymous

“Some people realize that what must burn in the fire is their fear—fear of their own power, fear of change, fear of…

— Elizabeth Lesser

People will try to pull you down, but you need to fight the negativity in your life. It's always good to stay…

— Vivek Oberoi

Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I…

— Sania Mirza

Your illness is the negativity within you. Turn negative energy into positive energy. Your persona becomes the positivity within you.

— Anonymous

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

“The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like…

— Bryant McGill

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid…

— A. S. Byatt

“The point that in the absence of birth nobody exists who can be deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For optimists, this…

— Thomas Ligotti

Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals…

— Nelson Mandela

Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall…

— B. C. Forbes

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing,…

— William Arthur Ward

If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Do you know what the hardest feeling is? It's when you love someone who doesn't love you or even look at you!…

— SirineFs

I wouldn't say 'most' people are prone to negativity. I think it's probably that most people allow negativity to color their thinking,…

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Madeleine Urban

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

— Stephanie Lahart

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

— Tim Tebow

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

— Margaret Mead

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

— Reamogetse Eister

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

— Chrissy Teigen

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

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

— Joseph Pulitzer

No, I'm not that optimistic, I'm just less pessimist than most of my peers.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Navratri represents how the negativity can be conquered by the inherent positive qualities in us.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

— Anais Nin

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Envy is the root of all negativity. To eliminate envy is to achieve peace in both spirituality and in the physical world.”

— Rahim Mawji

“Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.”

— Nicholas Proffitt