Top 252 Pessimistic Quotes & Sayings

The '80s have been so much doom and gloom. We've become very pessimistic.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

I'm very pessimistic.

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

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the evils of the wheel.

High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

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

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows how it started. The status quo, he knows, has to be maintained, otherwise there is no chance. He knows that this revolution is completely understandable and is also commendable. He also knows the negatives. In the end, that's not a very positive position to be in.

I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

This is what old guys do. They get dark and pessimistic.

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

It takes a certain amount of courage to not be pessimistic. I'd like to believe there is good in everyone.

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

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

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

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

It's easy to be pessimistic. Nobody needs to be taught how. You don't need to buy a book on it. You don't need to go to classes to learn how to be pessimistic. But you do read books on how to think positively, and people who write them become very rich because it takes effort.

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

I'm not as pessimistic as what a number of people seem to believe.

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

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

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

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

Don't be pessimistic Because, today, the sun hasn't shone It probably won't next year And you'll then be 61

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

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

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.

People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.

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.

In this pessimistic world, especially in America, a positive outlook is very necessary.

One life is way too short to be pessimistic, so you've got to be positive and optimistic.

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!

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

People do like to talk us down, it's a Scottish thing. We are pessimistic, we look for the negatives all the time.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

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

Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.