Pessimism Quotes

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.

I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

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

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

Enough to know no knowing.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

Pessimism is a waste of time.

I don't believe in pessimism.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

Pessimism is my default setting.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.