Pessimism Quotes · Page 43

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

— Kevin Spacey

Please don't come my way with your negativity , I'm living my life in Serenity!!

— Marisia Rodrigues

I'm thankful that we can soon get back to being ungrateful, disillusioned, and cynical.

— Anonymous

“Someone told me I’m a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.”

— Wade Kelly

I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.

— Kevin Macdonald

“Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.”

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

I'm finding myself increasingly attracted to literature that starts with pessimism as it's leading point and goes from there.

— Tom Burke

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

— Tyler Cowen

Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.

— Simon Singh

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even…

— David Limbaugh

The amount of negativity I hear on a daily basis is unbelievable. But that's the kind of stuff you have to tune…

— Dana White

What disturbs the mind? Negativity and desire. Tackle these internal causes and the mind remains serene even if a storm rages outside.…

— Jaya Row

I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that…

— Steve Backshall

There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce…

— David Grinspoon

...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in…

— B. C. Forbes

The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he…

— Dawn Powell

“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the…

— Mark Fisher

Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual…

— Alfred Binet

“We're humans, not machines. We have bad days. We have mental difficulties. We are inspired, yet we fail. We are not linear.…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Bjorn Lomborg

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it…

— CS Lewis

“When we focus on positive thoughts, we attract positive experiences into our field of awareness. Conversely, when we dwell on negativity, we…

— Sol Luckman

“In life, we plant seeds everywhere we go. Some fall on fertile ground needing very little to grow. Some fall on rocky…

— Sanjo Jendayi

Negative thoughts, words and attitude creates negative and unhappy feelings, moods and behavior. When the mind is negative, poisons are released into…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

— Ernest Hemingway

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.

— Ralph Waldo Trine

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

— Fay Weldon

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

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

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

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

— John Marsden

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

— Anonymous

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

— Eddy Alvarez

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Sourabh Raj Jain

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

— Sean O Faolain

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