Pessimism Quotations | Page 2

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

I like it when pessimism goes unrewarded.

The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

Enough to know no knowing.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

I don't believe in pessimism.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.