Pessimism Quotes · Page 56

“Behind his careful political flippancy and cynicism one might also detect a certain careless sincerity, which would probably in the long run…

— Hector Hugh Munro

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

— Paul Harvey

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

— Anonymous

Negativity is basically laziness.

— RuPaul

There's so much negativity in the media.

— Akiane Kramarik

I don't feed into negativity. I thankfully don't. That's just me.

— Lil Yachty

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

— Esther Hicks

I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of…

— Woody Allen

Pessimism is my default setting.

— Miranda Hart

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

— George Meredith

“Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.”

— Miguel Delibes

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“Life is and is not a gentle bore.”

— Charles Bukowski

“The glass is completely full...of shit.”

— Brian Spellman

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

— Evan Esar

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

— William Goldman

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

“You know you're a pessimist when you win an Oscar and think, "Oh God, I've peaked.”

— Cate Blanchett

Happy people find a way to live with their problems, and miserable people let their problems stop them from living.

— Sonya Parker

“Katz had read extensively in popular sociobiology, and his understanding of the depressive personality type and its seemingly perverse persistence in the…

— Jonathan Franzen

Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as…

— Barack Obama

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

— Mark McKinnon

“Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.”

— C. JoyBell C

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

— Peter Benchley

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

— Francois Guizot