Top Pessimism Quotes

I'm all groan up in America.

No one dies halfway through the last act. – Heinrich Ibsen

Pessimism Definition

(n.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to optimism.

(n.) A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

Once is never. Twice is always.

Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

Naturally all of us don't think we deserve very much. We don't believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent is to expect the...

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intel...

shift your focus to achieve your purpose. Life is all about change!

The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer.

The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.

That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't adm...

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.

It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

Don't you ever think that your mind can never harm you just because it is your mind! Your mind can really kill you. From dawn to the time you retire, your mind can be a very good friend to you and you...