Pessimism Quotes

357 Pessimism quotes by 235 unique authors

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist… — Steven Morrissey
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in… — Neal A. Maxwell
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that… — Tobias Wolff
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism. — Andrew Mellon
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism. — Vincent Van Gogh
We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better. — Peter Thiel
A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against… — Alfred Binet
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy.… — Alice Herz-Sommer
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work. — Elon Musk
Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible. — Daisaku Ikeda
Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds… — Alan Cohen
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. — Jim Leach
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. — Robert M. Sapolsky
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when… — Aristotle
Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes… — Richard Rodriguez
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today,… — Robertson Davies
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the… — Helen Keller
A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done. — Napoleon Hill
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of… — B. C. Forbes
Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive. — Mark Twain

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