Pessimistic Quotes - Page 2

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of flukey. I went into Twentieth Century because I wanted to work for Hal Prince. The part was too small according to my agent. I had been doing only leading parts, and he thought I should continue that. But the part was enlarged in rehearsal: songs were added, and it became more physicalized and showy. Then I won awards and got attention.

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.

I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea that sort of workers will find nothing else to do seems like it's way too pessimistic on the capabilities of everyone as human beings, right?

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.