Pessimism Quote by Elsa Triolet Download Open image “To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.” — Elsa Triolet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pessimism Pessimist Prophet Sufficient
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
“Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite/ sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.” — Nasir Jones Copy Share Image
“The variable that marks some periods as barren and some as rich in prophetic vision is in the interest, the level of seeking, the… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end. — Elsa Triolet Copy Share Image
There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship. — Elsa Triolet Copy Share Image
I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity… — Elsa Triolet Copy Share Image
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Only love can vanquish hate, the same way that only light can vanquish darkness. You cant fight negativity with more negativity; you must fight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When life hands you lemons, you squirt them in the eye, than yell that you wanted limes! — Amanda Day Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
