Pessimism Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Pessimism.
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“Enlightenment”
“Consciousness”
“Four Noble Truths”
“Philosophical pessimism”
“I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive.”
“—Blessed are they who expect the worst, for they shall get it!”
“No pessimist ever won an audience commensurately wide with his genius.”
“The nice thing about being a pessimist is that bittersweet is an improvement.”
“if we see a light at the end of the tunnel,
it's the light of an oncoming train.”
“Wikipedia: Pessimism”
“Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.”
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”
“Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.”
“If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.”
“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.”
“Don't ever become a pessimist … a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.”
“Me, I don’t know if I was born a pessimist or had pessimism thrust upon me. What I do you know is that I’ve had ample reason to embrace the philosophy.”
“It’s an odd quirk of the scientific personality that pessimism can result just as readily from a lack of outstanding problems as from their continued presence.”
“The literature doesn't show that positive thinking helps (sports) performance; what the literature shows is that negative thinking hurts performance.”