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Pessimism Quotes by William DeWitt Hyde
- The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we…
- Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on…
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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… — Bruce Lee
- A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. — Arthur Schopenhauer
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. — Winston Churchill
- Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual… — Alfred Binet
- We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. — Michel de Montaigne
- I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison
- No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson