Top 30 Philosophy Pessimism Quotes
#1. PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
Ambrose Bierce
#2. There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#3. Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
#4. In my heart's most secret place,
I pity them as angels do.
Sara Teasdale
#5. This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?
Marguerite Yourcenar
#6. Having a rather pessimistic outlook on life makes for the best philosophical discussions; distress is the only real reason to question something; comfort often leads to the inability to change.
Moryah DeMott
#8. Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility," she murmured.
Gary Inbinder
#9. Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths.
Robert E. Murray
#10. The main advantage of being branded as
honest is that people do not fear you. They stop being jealous of you. And, most importantly, people will trust you with key information, important tasks and worthy projects.
Abhishek Ratna
#11. The culture of power versus the power of culture," he quoted. "One side always loses.
Ausma Zehanat Khan
#12. If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.
Victoria Legrand
#13. love is not always enough if you both want different things.
Erin Brady
#16. Pessimism is a funny thing, isn't it? Madison thought as she looked at Judith's furrowed face. I like a bit of pessimism as much as the next man, but when I'm bombarded with it I suddenly became an eternal optimist.
Melissa Kite
#17. A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
#18. Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.
George Coyne
#19. A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
Ann Landers
#20. 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 intelligible
Arthur Schopenhauer
#22. There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#23. Now, what is the left's worldview in general? What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a leftist worldview, it's one of pessimism and darkness, sadness. They're never happy, are they? They're always angry about something. No matter what they get, they're always angry.
Rush Limbaugh
#24. If you only go around once in life, then why has that one gone around more than once?
Brian Spellman
#25. The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
Helen Keller
#26. If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.
Suzy Kassem
#27. Little Pessimism in life reminds of staying alive and not wandering in a fairy land.
Vikram Adhikari
#28. You can't have what you want to have, without doing what you need to do.
Jim Connolly
#29. What is it about women that they just go right for the guy that totally repulses them?
Alison Brie
#30. It's still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can't help a show, they can hurt it.
Mitch Leigh
