Pessimism quotes
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I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.
-- Andrew Mellon -
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. -
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
-- Arnold Bennett -
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
-- Bill Bryson -
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
-- David Myers -
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It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.
-- Dee Hock -
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
-- Elon Musk -
To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
-- Elsa Triolet -
Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.
-- Emile Chartier -
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Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.
-- Fatema Mernissi -
The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
-- Fay Weldon -
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
-- Freeman Dyson -
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
-- Golda Meir -
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
-- Golda Meir -
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.
-- Helen Clark MacInnes -
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
-- Howard Zinn -
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An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
-- Idries Shah -
Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.
-- Immortal Technique -
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
-- Jean Rostand -
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
-- Jim Leach -
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A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
-- Joan Robinson -
I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
-- John Oliver -
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.
-- John Piper -
Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.
-- John Ralston Saul -
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Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.
-- John Templeton -
Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
-- Lois Wyse -
Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?
-- Lynne Truss -
You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!
-- Matthew Quick -
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When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.
-- Michel Houellebecq -
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
-- Miguel de Unamuno -
Pessimism is a waste of time.
-- Norman Cousins -
Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.
-- Robert H. Schuller -
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Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
-- Robert M. Sapolsky -
Enough to know no knowing.
-- Samuel Beckett -
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.
-- Steve Toltz -
The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
-- Veronica Roth -
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I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.
-- Wole Soyinka -
I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.
-- Ron Currie Jr.
