Change Quote by Agnes Repplier

Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable…

— Arthur Lynch

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon…

— Agnes Repplier

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history…

— Rebecca West

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

— Anonymous

“Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He’d been born to…

— Richard Russo

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on… He who, without friends to encourage or even…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their…

— Sir Fulke Greville

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen…

— Charles Spurgeon

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

— Anonymous

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

— Mark Twain

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo