Top 100 Quotes About Pessimistic
#1. The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.
Julie Mehretu
#3. People think I'm all gloom and doom all the time. I'm not. I also have bad days where I'm pessimistic.
Jarod Kintz
#5. I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#6. Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.
David Levithan
#7. It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.
Mark Zandi
#8. It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
Isabel Allende
#9. Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.
Martin Seligman
#10. I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?
Jose Saramago
#11. We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#12. If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
Hazel Henderson
#13. No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
Cathie Linz
#14. I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
Nicholas Hoult
#15. Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#16. It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.
Bill Bryson
#17. We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.
Mary Shelley
#18. You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#19. History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation's spirit can be achieved.
Aysha Taryam
#20. There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
Bill Vaughan
#21. Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#22. There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.
William McFee
#23. Listen to what you tell yourself about your life situation. If you find it's pessimistic or negative, ask yourself, "What's another way of thinking about this?" or "What do I want to create in my life?
Lynn A. Robinson
#24. 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
#25. I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
Carlos Fuentes
#26. I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively, instead of skeptically and dictatorially.
E.B. White
#27. I'm not negative, pessimistic, angry, antisocial or schizophrenic. I'm a writer, and entitled to all that with pride.
Daniel Marques
#28. Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
Primo Levi
#29. Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
Mark Twain
#30. I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.
Peter Thiel
#31. I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.
William Sanderson
#32. ...the atmosphere after a March storm is always dour and pessimistic; we get them every year (and two or three in April for good measure, if we're not lucky), but we never seem to expect them. Every time we get clouted we take it personally.
Stephen King
#33. Perserverance: Outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves.
R.S. Guthrie
#34. On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.
Helen Caldicott
#35. 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
#36. I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.
Chuck Palahniuk
#38. Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails.
Brian Wesbury
#40. I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
Alain De Botton
#41. I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.
Rebecca McNutt
#42. A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley
#43. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#44. In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.
Emilio Estevez
#45. If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
David Eddings
#46. According to them, when you think a dark or pessimistic thought, it produces a cloud in the sky. If enough people are thinking gloomy thoughts at once, then rain will begin to fall. That
Paul Auster
#47. 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
#48. Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.
Jared Diamond
#49. If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.
Bryant McGill
#50. Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.
Brian Eno
#52. I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.
W.S. Merwin
#53. Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine.
Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.
Jonathan Heatt
#54. The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
Cornel West
#55. I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.
Dennis Miller
#56. We all have negative days, but that doesn't mean we are pessimistic. We all do stupid things, but that doesn't mean we are stupid. It's important to be able to distinguish between what happens to us and who we are, and look forward with hope for new and better days ahead!
Lindsey Stirling
#57. The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
A. N. Wilson
#58. I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
Kim Jee-woon
#59. When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
Charles R. Swindoll
#60. 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.
Munia Khan
#61. From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.
Eduardo Galeano
#62. If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.
Peter Thiel
#63. Besides, many Islamic movements will change as soon as they gain political responsibility. I'm not at all pessimistic in this regard. Just think of Turkey, where the Islamists are now behaving like a sort of Christian Democratic party in Europe.
Zalmay Khalilzad
#64. Rut, routine, robotic. These are the three R's of adult-hood. Wake up, eat, go to work, eat, work more, come home, eat, sleep, and repeat every day until we all reach retirement, or death.
Craig R. Key
#65. The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
Charles Stross
#66. It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Steve Jobs
#67. The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
Mignon McLaughlin
#68. I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
Jon Anderson
#69. 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
#70. In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#71. Never will I make that extra effort to live according to reality which alone makes good writing possible: hence the manic-depressiveness of my style, - which is either bright, cruel and superficial; or pessimistic; moth-eaten with self-pity
Cyril Connolly
#72. In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.
Ralph Washington Sockman
#73. I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#74. When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
Marshall Brickman
#75. The minute somebody joins a committee ... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
P. J. O'Rourke
#76. I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
Claude Chabrol
#78. I wanted to smack Logan over the head for his pessimistic attitude.
Micalea Smeltzer
#79. Sara and I both have this very self-deprecating, almost abusive way of looking at ourselves. We both feel like we can be very destructive and very pessimistic and very tortured and very weak, but in a weird way those are some of our best qualities.
Tegan Quin
#80. 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
#81. I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.
David Small
#82. 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
#83. The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.
Lou Andreas-Salome
#84. I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
Nigahiga
#85. A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#86. Leadership is the ability to see what no one else sees, to listen when others talk and the ability to be optimistic when others are pessimistic.
George T. Cummings
#87. My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
Olivia Wilde
#88. [A]ny ecstatic experience can be healing not just for you but for others. Therapy is good to help you think differently and break patterns of pessimistic thinking or negative self-talk. But we have to be joyful, dance, and bring pleasure into our lives deliberately.
Christiane Northrup
#89. The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.
John P. Kotter
#90. These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present. The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries
Stanislaw Lem
#91. She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy's penis swells and the vaginal muscles of the girl constrict. Even after sex, both dogs remain locked together, helpless and miserable for a brief period of time.
The Mommy said this same scenario described most marriages.
Chuck Palahniuk
#92. There's no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism.
Anonymous
#93. The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.
I. F. Stone
#94. I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.
Jeff Lemire
#95. How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.
Peter Schwartz
#97. The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks.
Murray Rothbard
#98. Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic,
Benjamin Graham
#99. The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
Albert Schweitzer
#100. Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
Livy
