Pessimistic Quotes

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve.

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'