Pessimistic Quotes (page 5)

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• helpful
• thinking
• blessed

Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making. Hayao Miyazaki

• future
• past
• optimistic

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. Lewis Mumford

• future
• manly
• ignorance

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? Eugenio Montale

• am
• project
• envisioning

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned. Colin Mochrie

• cat
• look
• rodeo

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown. Dennis Miller

• manly
• may
• optimistic

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. Aldous Huxley

• optimistic
• intelligent
• because

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Antonio Gramsci

• work
• saying
• death

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is. H. R. Giger

• cynically
• borne
• vehement

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. Paul Getty

• optimistic
• optimists
• pessimists

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. Jean de La Fontaine

• optimistic
• affection
• vision

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. Charles R. Swindoll

• life
• depression
• about life

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• world
• live
• lived

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

• hope
• driving
• remarkably

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. Jared Diamond

• light
• running
• optimistic

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Rene Descartes