Coping Quote by Walter Wriston

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us…

— Gary Snyder

That doomsday idea is in everybody's subconscious.

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“the United States, the debate has too often centered on how likely various doom-and-gloom scenarios are, and when they’ll occur. But scaring people doesn’t…

— Michael R. Bloomberg

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very…

— Rebecca West

“If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Edward C. Prescott

The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied…

— Daniel Goleman

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology.…

— Ray Bradbury

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society…

— Sam Keen

“Predictions often give us an illusion of control in situations that are inherently out of our control. Nothing exemplifies this better than our relationship…

— Heidi Cullen