Pessimism Quotes

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.It never is, sir.Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

Oscar Wilde

Pessimism never won any battle.

Dwight D Eisenhower

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Charles Dickens

Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

Mark Twain

He that falls by himself never cries.

Proverb

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you're grateful.

Paul Theroux

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Horace

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Lord Jeffrey

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Daniel Readon

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

Edward W. Howe

I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.

Paul Harvey

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Ian Mcewan

Rich folks always talk hard times.

Lillian Smith

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

Susan Sontag

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

James Baldwin

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Thomas Hardy

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Desiderius Erasmus