Disease Quote by Upton Sinclair

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

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath…

— James A. Baldwin

Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.

— Emile Chartier

“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 only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

— Francis Parker Yockey

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, 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

“Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).”

— Claire

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

— Thomas Hardy

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

— Don Marquis