Quotes about Pessimism

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

What about unfulfilled potential? That phrase is as negative as the word potential is positive. My friend Florence

Authentic Christianity has a horror of the pessimism of inertia. It is pessimist, profoundly pessimist in the sense that it knows that the creature comes from nothingness, and that all that issues from nothing essentially tends of itself to return to nothing: but it's optimism is incomparably deeper than it's pessimism; for it knows that the creature comes from God, and all that comes from God tends to return to Him.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the

is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.