Pessimism Quotes

357 Pessimism quotes by 235 unique authors

Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as… — Marisha Pessl
Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. — Robert Jordan
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. — Oscar Wilde
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. — Nhat Hanh
You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life. — Chuck Palahniuk
Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Karen Marie Moning
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I like it when pessimism goes unrewarded. — Stephenie Meyer
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. — Oscar Wilde
Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability. — Brandon Sanderson
the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet… — Eric Clapton
‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't… — David Benioff
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;… — Douglas MacArthur
He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him — Joris-Karl Huysmans
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in… — John Piper
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism… — Alain de Botton
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God. — Jonathan Kellerman
It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened.… — Timothy Keller
Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly… — BrenÃ© Brown
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps… — Charles R. Swindoll
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no… — John Barth

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