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Pessimistic Quotes

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If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
Sigmund Freud

If it's not one problem, it's another.
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The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
Cornel West

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Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
Wole Soyinka

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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
Naguib Mahfouz

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The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.
Sonja Lyubomirsky

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I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.
Norman Reedus

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I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
Elmer Bernstein

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No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.
Price Pritchett

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I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
Nigahiga

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I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.
Theodore von Karman

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It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.
Leo Tolstoy

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I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
Dawn Powell

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If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.
January Jones

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In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.
Emilio Estevez

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Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
Jim Valvano

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At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve.
Osama Alomar

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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White

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I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
Claude Chabrol

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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
Eugene Ionesco

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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
David Eddings

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The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
Emile M. Cioran

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I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'
Emmet Gowin

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I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.
John Edgar Wideman

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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
Cyril Connolly

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I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.
Colin Farrell

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If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
Maya Angelou

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When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
Marshall Brickman

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Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.
John Derbyshire

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If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
Paul Hawken

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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
Olivia Wilde

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I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.
Paul Theroux

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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.
Michel Foucault

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No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.
Stuart Hughes

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Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.
Seth Godin

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I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.
Karl Pilkington

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I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of flukey. I went into Twentieth Century because I wanted to work for Hal Prince. The part was too small according to my agent. I had been doing only leading parts, and he thought I should continue that. But the part was enlarged in rehearsal: songs were added, and it became more physicalized and showy. Then I won awards and got attention.
Kevin Kline

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I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
Frances Moore Lappé

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Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
Joni Eareckson Tada

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There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
Bill Vaughan

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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
Karel Reisz

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There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.
Jess Row

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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
Henry Rollins

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I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.
Jonathan Safran Foer

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I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.
Bruce Springsteen

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The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
Mignon McLaughlin

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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.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
Mark Twain

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Don't be pessimistic Because, today, the sun hasn't shone It probably won't next year And you'll then be 61
John Walter Bratton

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I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.
Sergio Leone

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I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.
George Harrison