Pessimism Quotes

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

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.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

...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.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

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.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.