Pessimism Quotes
357 quotes by 241 authors
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their…
— James A. Baldwin
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You can never plan the future by the past.
— Edmund Burke
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
— Winston Churchill
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
— Winston Churchill
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to…
— Leonard Cohen
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Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
— Bruce Lee
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed…
— Alfred Binet
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In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.
— Esther Hicks
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We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
— Max Beerbohm
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I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and…
— Joseph Addison
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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
— Samuel Johnson
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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
— Elbert Hubbard
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
— Agnes Repplier
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Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And…
— Franklin P. Adams
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