Pessimistic Quotes · Page 6

It takes a certain amount of courage to not be pessimistic. I'd like to believe there is good in everyone.

— Janhvi Kapoor

One life is way too short to be pessimistic, so you've got to be positive and optimistic.

— Danilo Gallinari

“People think I’m all gloom and doom all the time. I’m not. I also have bad days where I’m pessimistic.”

— Jarod Kintz

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

— Nathan Englander

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and…

— Albert Schweitzer

“Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.”

— Suzy Kassem

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

— Dennis Miller

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

— Gough Whitlam

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an…

— Nicholas Hoult

Most people have desires that are great and they want to do great things, and they don't want to be negative people…

— Kirk Franklin

I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I…

— David Small

I'm quite pessimistic about climate change. This is an urgent problem, and much of the world is only now waking up to…

— Philip Kitcher

In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not…

— David Hockney

When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as…

— Naomi Wolf

To describe someone as a pessimist is to issue an insult, whereas to be labelled an optimist is to get a pat…

— David Olusoga

People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“reality usually delivers results a little worse than the 'worst-case scenario'. It's called the planning fallacy, and the best way to fix…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.…

— Jonathan Schell

I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's…

— Jackie Chan

I focus most of my attention on Hillary Clinton and her disastrous policies. I mean, there's a real danger in this election.…

— Jeb Bush

I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society…

— Antonin Scalia

If you give up on trying to change larger structures and just go off on what some would say is a personal…

— David Holmgren

I have now lived long enough to know that, whatever our situation, our troubles melt and disappear like frost in the morning…

— James E. Faust

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

— Alison Sudol

Nobody wants to hang around a person who has a self-pitying, pessimistic outlook on life.

— Senoraroy

If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.

— Mara Liasson

“The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.”

— David McRaney

“We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.”

— Samuel Beckett

“I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.”

— Josh Cathey

“Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their…

— Anonymous

“It is well known in cognitive science that if you are pessimistic, you sound ‘smarter,”

— Anonymous

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

— Regina Doman

“Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or…

— Miguel de Unamuno

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

— Nate Silver

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

— James Huneker

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is…

— Ron Currie Jr

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

— Michael Robotham