Civilization Quote by Arthur Lynch

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

— Upton Sinclair

The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to minister to…

— Michael J. Nelson

Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.

— Emile Chartier

“Pessimism, by contrast, prepares us for a world that is constantly changing and surprising us. It tells us to banish our expectations and the…

— Jacob Graham

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but…

— Anonymous

Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done…

— Lester Frank Ward

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do,…

— Martin Seligman

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

— Anonymous

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

“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his…

— Ambrose Bierce

My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human…

— Stanislaw Lem