Cold Quote by J. C. Ryle

“Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all but indistinguishable…

— Michael Chabon

“In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy.”

— David Brin

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.

— Tom Lehrer

History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.

— David Autor

This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will…

— Chinua Achebe

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

— Howard Zinn

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a…

— Mark Twain

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

— Antonio Gramsci

We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and…

— Robert Runcie

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for…

— William Morris

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

— Edward C. Prescott

“As long as we're young, we manage to find excuses for the stoniest indifference, the most blatant caddishness, we put them down to emotional…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline