Faith Quote by Jacob Graham

“Pessimism, by contrast, prepares us for a world that is constantly changing and surprising us. It tells us to banish our expectations and the…

— Jacob Graham

“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 negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists…

— Martin Heidegger

Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.

— Emile Chartier

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

— 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 a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us…

— Robertson Davies

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

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

— Ron Currie Jr

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

— Howard Zinn

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.

— Arthur Lynch

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

— George Orwell