35 Pessimism Quotes for You to Enjoy

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. William James

Power Weakness Leads Optimism Pessimism

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

Luxury Allow Never Himself Pessimism Jew

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. Margaret Atwood

Reality Better Worse Optimism Than Realist Means Pessimism

It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. Charles Albert Gobat

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Pessimism never won any battle. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Battle Never Won Any Pessimism

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. Norman Cousins

Time Wait Facts Prospects Deals Optimism Pessimism Waste Waste Of Time

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. Bernard DeVoto

Wisdom Men Weak Nerves Give Only Name Pessimism

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

Courage Pessimism

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. Jean Rostand

Other Point Sincerity Suspecting Pessimism Pessimists Even

It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more. Andrew Haigh

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When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years. Bjorn Lomborg

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

World Think Irrational Just Much Pessimism

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America. David Limbaugh

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I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. Doris Lessing

Writing Think Telling Terms Am Optimism Story Pessimism

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

Point Sincerity Goes Suspecting Pessimism Pessimists

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

Sometimes Contagious Optimism Gets Pessimism Popular

I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism. El-P

Definitely His Up Just Grew Loved Pessimism Garfield

Pessimism is rife in Israel. Elliott Abrams

Israel Pessimism Rife

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger. Emilio Estevez

Fruit People Would Only Reaching Hip Trying Stop Stopped Swagger Which Hard Pessimism Cynicism Cool Media Media People

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things. Federico Fellini

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Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities. Harvey Mackay

Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring. Jesmyn Ward

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