Pessimism Quote by Jacob Graham

“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Pessimism is a very easy way out when you’re considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life. If you…

— Robertson Davies

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in…

— Thomas Hardy

“Pessimism is not a belief that things will get worse, either for the individual or the species—it is more profoundly a rejection of the…

— Jacob Graham

“Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We”

— Ian McEwan

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done…

— Lester Frank Ward

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

— Howard Zinn

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in…

— Helen Keller

“Pessimism is a denial of the reality of God and the power man draws from being connected to it.”

— Arianna Huffington

Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.

— Emile Chartier

“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.”

— Jean Rostand