Top 283 Pessimism Quotes & Sayings

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

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground.

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

I like it when pessimism goes unrewarded.

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

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

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.

I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.

Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

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

I don't believe in pessimism.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.

Pessimism is my default setting.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

My pessimism has never been flabby.

Pessimism is a waste of time.

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

We must not let ourselves fall into the vortex of pessimism. Faith can move mountains!

Whether we like it or not, there are moments in history when pessimism is the appropriate response.

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

I just think there is so much irrational pessimism in the world.

Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

I have about an equal amount of optimism and pessimism.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!