Quotes about Pessimism

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

“Pessimism never won any battle.”

“You've got to take the bitter with the sour.”

“One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.”

“There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.”

“A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.”

“I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.”

“We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.”

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.”

“Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.”

“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”

“A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”

“If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.”

“A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”

“Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.”

“Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.”

“If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.”

“Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.”

“If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”

“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”

“In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”

“I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.”

“The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.”

“Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.”

“I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.”

“The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.”

“The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.”

“You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you're grateful.”