Pessimistic Quotes

“Every swamp has a silted lining.”

— Brian Spellman

“A cynic is just a wounded romantic.”

— Pamela Jaye Smith

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

— Paul Watson

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

— Brian Spellman

I'm very pessimistic.

— B. F. Skinner

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

— Sigmund Freud

“Life is how you look at it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life is short unless agony is long.”

— Brian Spellman

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

— Henry Rollins

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

— Mark Twain

“Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.”

— Daniel Willey

“Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.”

— Alexander Pushkin

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

— Dane Cook

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

— Elon Musk

“Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine. Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.”

— Jonathan Heatt

“They Have a Negative Attitude and Pessimistic Outlook”

— Mike Weinberg

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

— John Kessel

Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the…

— Gray Scott

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

— Wolfgang Schauble

“Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

— Marshall Brickman

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

— Jon Anderson

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

— George Jones

“There’s no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism.”

— Anonymous

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic,…

— Anonymous

“Boyfriends and literature: How can you make a life out of those two things? As it turns out, I did; more literature…

— Susanna Kaysen

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

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the…

— Howard Rheingold

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the…

— John Edgar Wideman

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and…

— John P. Kotter

The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too…

— Prince William

On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that…

— Arthur Demarest

With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's…

— Walton Goggins

When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose…

— Michael Craig-Martin

The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or…

— Joanna Macy

Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this,…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic…

— Nate Ruess

I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are…

— Criss Jami

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand,…

— Anne Rice

Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening…

— Robertson Davies