Pessimism Quotes

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes -- until I met a man who had no feet.

Yiddish Proverb

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

Chinese Proverb

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

Emile Durkheim

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Oscar Wilde

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

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Friedrich von Schiller

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. -Puddleglum in The Silver Chair

C.S. Lewis

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

Samuel Johnson

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Samuel Johnson

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke

The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see to do the necessary task that was allotted me. Resentment of the vivid glow I started to complain. When all at once upon the air I heard the blind man's cane.

Earl Musselman

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive

Mark Twain