Pessimism Quotes

357 Pessimism quotes by 235 unique authors

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. — Idries Shah
Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals.… — Timothy Keller
You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism! — Matthew Quick
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide… — Bob Brown
Pessimism is my default setting. — Miranda Hart
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at… — Said Sayrafiezadeh
Pessimism is rife in Israel. — Elliott Abrams
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any… — Antony Beevor
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. — John Ortberg
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias… — Charles Albert Gobat
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it. — George J. Mitchell
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. — Edmond Rostand
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. — Bernard DeVoto
I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. — Wole Soyinka
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the… — Jaron Lanier
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a… — Albert Einstein
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little — Mark Twain
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. — Daniel L Reardon
Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march… — Robert A. Heinlein
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. — G B Stern
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic — Albert Schweitzer
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome. — Samuel Butler
Everyone experiences an unhappy mood on occasion, but there is a big difference between experiencing a temporary bout of unhappiness and living a habitually unhappy… — Melchor Lim
I don't believe in love at first sight but I do believe in judging at first sight. — Nikhil Saluja

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