Top 100 Quotes About Pessimism

#1. Pessimism is not good for the soul."
"I sold my soul years ago."
"To whom?"
"The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.

Jonathan Kellerman

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

David Myers

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#3. Pessimism has its own secret
Share of optimism in it too.

Angela Suba

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#4. Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.

Martin Heidegger

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

John Templeton

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#6. It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

Michael Chabon

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#7. Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.

H.G.Wells

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

Idries Shah

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#9. The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

Thomas Ligotti

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#10. Please don't. Don't oversimplify everything you've been through like that. You had to feel those awful feelings. You had to face them down
confront your bitterness and pessimism
and decide that you didn't want to be that way anymore.

Rainbow Rowell

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#11. Every swamp has a silted lining.

Brian Spellman

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#12. If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

Herman Melville

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#13. Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

T.H. White

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#15. Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses.

Oscar Wilde

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#16. And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

Jeff Lindsay

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#17. Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

George Will

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#18. But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.

Faraaz Kazi

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#19. Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

Max Beerbohm

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#20. The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic.

S.A. Tawks

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#21. You can't ever really have enough worth that when you're gone, the spot you left won't close over.

Laura Florand

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#22. Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William James

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#23. I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

Peter David

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#24. Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Jon Meacham

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#25. Pessimism, cynicism and fear will only lead to a very small life. Don't live small.

Neil Abramson

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#26. Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

Edith Hamilton

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#27. Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.

Robert Orben

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#28. If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

Stuart Hill

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#29. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

W.B.Yeats

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#30. Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it's seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment and culture. I don't share that pessimism because I think it is one of the great inventions of the human spirit.

Richard Flanagan

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#31. You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

Alison Lurie

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#32. If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle.

Salman Rushdie

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#33. John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

John Taliaferro

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#34. 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

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#35. Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Idries Shah

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#36. Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny.

Auliq Ice

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#37. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

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#38. Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Karen Marie Moning

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#40. All live to die, and rise to fall.

Christopher Marlowe

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#41. Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

George Gissing

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#42. No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.

Cathie Linz

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#43. I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#44. Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

Helen Keller

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#45. Don't ever let desperation take the seat of inspiration in you! Always live inspired no matter what! For though something might be wrong somewhere, something is always right somewhere! If you have life, be alive and smile!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#46. We are optimists by instinct, pessimists by thought.

Marty Rubin

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#47. I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me's no joke.

John Barth

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#48. Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#49. I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

Tracy Letts

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#50. Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#51. In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise 1 in the primer of minor poetry.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Jim Benton

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#53. I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.

Howard Zinn

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#54. What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#55. Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.

Brando Skyhorse

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#56. I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

John Corey Whaley

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#57. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

David Landes

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#58. Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Peter David

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#59. The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.

Veronica Roth

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#60. He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Joris-Karl Huysmans

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

Thomas L. Friedman

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#62. A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

William Arthur Ward

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#63. Pessimism is often a failure of imagination.

Scott Adams

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#64. Forgive the pessimism, if not the sonority. But I know how much you demand from a thing, you little bastard.

J.D. Salinger

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#65. I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#66. Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

Harold Bloom

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#67. Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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#68. Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

William J. Clinton

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#69. In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.

Abel Aganbegyan

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#70. Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.

Marty Rubin

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#71. My glass is not only half-empty, I'm convinced someone spit in it.

Judy Nichols

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#72. Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

Rabindranath Tagore

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#73. 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.

Dennis Lehane

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#74. Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

Robert Jordan

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#75. One can only tolerate the absolute idiocy of Man for so long before bringing out the bat.

Dean Hale

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#76. You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

Amy Jo Cousins

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#77. Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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#78. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

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#79. People always switched on turn me off.

Brian Spellman

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#80. Fuck you! I hope you die!"
"Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.

Lawrence Block

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#81. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

Mark Twain

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#82. I've been told I'm a glass half-empty sort of person.

Maria Malonzo

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#83. We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

Malcolm Gladwell

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#84. There was a pessimism in his soul, a darkness in his outlook, that always left her somehow more aware of hard edges than she had been before.

Kate Morton

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#85. I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.

Andrew W.K.

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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#87. And you must always remember there's one good thing about being trapped down here: it'll save funeral expenses.

C.S. Lewis

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#88. Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

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#89. Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
"What's pessimism?" I said.
"Religion without God.

Jonathan Kellerman

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#90. We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there's always another bottom underneath the one we're laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there's always endless opportunity above us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Margaret Mead

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#92. Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. I always got out before the euphoria.

Jennifer Handford

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#93. Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Ken Kesey

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#94. A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

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#95. All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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#96. Thus far, the best that could be said for the day was that it was half over.

Daniel Polansky

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#97. Magical?" "Non." "Magnificent?" "Don't be absurd." "Less bleak than anything else we have seen?" "Now truly you are speaking French," the ambassador said approvingly.

Neal Stephenson

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#98. A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time.

Dan Ariely

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#99. What he was now seeing was the street lonely, savage, and cool. That was it: cool; he was thinking, saying aloud to himself sometimes, "I better move. I better get away from here."
But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

William Faulkner

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#100. Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

Cathy Burnham Martin

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