Pessimistic Quotations

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

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

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

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

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

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

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

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

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

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

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.

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

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

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

I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

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

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

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

I don't feel like promising big things to my fans. I'm not thinking about victory at all. I'll do my best to get on the podium at least, although I must admit I feel fairly pessimistic.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

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

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

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.

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

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.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

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.

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

The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.