Pessimism Quotes (page 2)

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• hope
• pain
• forgiveness

the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine. Eric Clapton

• inspirational
• women
• world

It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world. Michael Chabon

• focus
• fall
• lies

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves? Alain de Botton

• end
• great
• greatness

So this, thought Jan, with a resignation that lay beyond all sadness, was the end of man. It was an end that no prophet had foreseen? an end that repudiated optimism and pessimism alike. Yet it was fitting: it had the sublime inevitability of a great work of art. Jan had glimpsed the universe in all its immensity, and knew now that it was no place for man. He realized at last how vain, in the ultimate analysis, had been the dream that lured him to the stars. For the road to the stars was a... Arthur C. Clarke

• evening
• even
• sincerely

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

• difficult
• fashion
• nature

SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: … But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays. MRS CHEVELEY: Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses. SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: You prefer to be natural? MRS CHEVELEY: Sometimes. But it is such a very difficult pose to keep up. (Act I., lines 132-140) Oscar Wilde

• existences
• exists
• stays

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it. George J. Mitchell

• courage
• courageously
• oneness

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

• superior
• marks
• marked

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

• cool
• people
• fruit

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger. Emilio Estevez

• people
• opportunity
• younger people

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them. Freeman Dyson

• family
• kindness
• entire

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. Gordon B. Hinckley

• time
• waiting
• waste

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. Norman Cousins

• stupid
• choose
• despair

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? Francis Parker Yockey

• time
• words
• optimization

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. Wole Soyinka