Concepts Quote by Michael J. Nelson

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

— Immortal Technique

Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable…

— Arthur Lynch

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 mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

— Upton Sinclair

My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human…

— Stanislaw Lem

“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 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 not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but…

— Anonymous

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do,…

— Martin Seligman

“Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self- fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.”

— Evelin Lindner

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer…

— Georgia Harkness

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