Best 85 quotes in «pessimistic quotes» category

No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

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

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.

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.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

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

A cynic is just a wounded romantic.

Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

I'm all groan up in America.

El trabajo me parece una estupidez odiosa a la que es difícil escapar

Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.

Every swamp has a silted lining.

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 mean he's honest, he sees the terrible things, he doesn't try to cover them up or imagine them away — the evil of the world, the senselessness of it all, the rottenness of us ordinary people, our fantasy life, our selfishness —

I’d like to think that the day I realize we will always be miserable will differ from every other. I hope it will so obnoxiously stand out from the monotonous cycle of my days, that I wouldn’t forget that sorrowful moment of comprehension. But, when that breeze of reality comes by, it wont be a memorable hurricane, nor a momentous tornado. It will be the same, sad, soft wind that I felt the day before, and the day before that. Because the moment you understand your inevitable misery in life, may also be the day you see you are to always be dejected.

If the journey to success and happiness was hundred miles, some people would calculate it by meters and get discouraged by the numbers they come up with.

In a century or two this planet will have been destroyed by external cosmic forces or by the senseless activity of the human race. Human life is a freak phenomenon, soon to be blotted out. That is a consoling thought. Meanwhile we are surrounded by strange invisible entities, possibly your angels." "I hope so." "Ah, you think they are good, they cannot be good, there is no good, the tendency to evil is overwhelming. One has only to think of the horrors of sex, its violence, its cruelty, its filthy vulgarity, its descent into bestial degradation. You had better go and dream in your monastery." "Would you come and visit me there?" "Of course not. I do not visit. Only, unfortunately, am sometimes visited." "You don't want to discuss — you know — what happened? My priest said — " "No." "I care about how you are, I love you." "You still fail to realise how this sort of talk sickens me. Now please go. This will do for a welcome home scene. Tell them not to come. I desire to be left alone.

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.

If you constantly allow negative statements into your life, you run the risk of adopting such negative statements as your convictions and principles. Generally, you will have a pessimistic outlook towards life.

I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.

Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses’ ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something.

Most pessimists are blinded by darkness.

One of these days," he said. "Everything bad will happen—one of these days.

Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others.

Nothing is more pleasing than to see an arrogant prick fail.

Our planet is a freak which we shall destroy by our own wicked senseless activities in the next century. Our history will very soon come to an end. Now that God is dead, we are at last presented with the truth, yes, the truth remains, but it is on a short lead. Anyway, we are nothing and it matters not what we do.

[Patricia Highsmith] had experienced at first hand many of Ripley's characteristics - splintered identity, insecurity, inferiority, obsession with an object of adoration, and the violence that springs from repression. Like her young anti-hero, she knew that in order to survive, it was necessary to prop oneself up with a psychological fantasy of one's own making. 'Happiness, for me, is a matter of imagination,' she wrote in her notebook while writing The Talented Mr. Ripley. 'Existence is a matter of unconscious elimination of negative and pessimistic thinking. I mean, to survive at all. And this applies to everyone. We are all suicides under the skin, and under the surface of our lives.

Perhaps the savages will always be in control, Phillip said gloomily. Perhaps greed will always outweigh wisdom in the councils of the mighty; perhaps fear will always overcome compassion in the mind of a man with a sword in his hand.

Start looking at the glass as half full and not half empty, a positive life is secondary to you being positive.

Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).

Quien para otro cava una zanja en ella cae

Rut, routine, robotic. These are the three R's of adult-hood. Wake up, eat, go to work, eat, work more, come home, eat, sleep, and repeat every day until we all reach retirement, or death.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.

The glass is completely full...of shit.

The optimist is a pessimist with a plan

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

The prescription for perplexed people who are tempted to be pessimistic is to rejoice, do good, and recognize that our ability to work, eat, and drink is the gift of God.

There are two words that I believe could be completely eradicated from our vocabulary – “I can’t.” These two words are so definite that they leave absolutely no room for hope. Instead, I suggest we use the phrase, “How can I?