Top Pessimism Quotes

The optimist's hope and the pessimist's despair: reciprocal illusions.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

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.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice," Amos liked to say. "Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look for...

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

The world is full of dead optimists.

When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Pessimism is the key to see what really goes on within our world, the lies and manipulation that circles us all is exposed

One physician may gravely exaggerate an illness and give up hope altogether. Another may ignorantly declare that there is no illness and that no treatment is necessary, thus deceiving the patient with...

Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back.

Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of...

The author says people are guilty of wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy...

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

Todos nós crescemos vendo os mesmos programas de TV. É como se tivéssemos os mesmos implantes artificiais de memória. Não nos recordamos de quase nada da nossa verdadeira infância, mas nos lembramos d...