Pessimistic Quotes

• When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • People
  • World
  • Optimistic

• I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Anything
  • Much
  • Pessimistic

• I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future

• Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Change
  • Decision
  • Devices

• I talk about going to his George W. Bush's Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water"... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Economy

• My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Dangerous
  • Activism
  • Pessimistic

• One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Home
  • Hope
  • West

• I'm very pessimistic.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Very
  • Pessimistic

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

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Single
  • New
  • Resurrection

• I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of flukey. I went into Twentieth Century because I wanted to work for Hal Prince. The part was too small according to my agent. I had been doing only leading parts, and he thought I should continue that. But the part was enlarged in rehearsal: songs were added, and it became more physicalized and showy. Then I won awards and got attention.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Work
  • Song
  • Small

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Future
  • Boys
  • General

• If you give up on trying to change larger structures and just go off on what some would say is a personal indulgence or being a survivalist, it can be seen as incredibly negative or pessimistic. But the other way to think of it is this: through manifesting the way we live and acting as if it's normal, you're defending yourself against depression and dysfunction, but you're also providing a model that others can copy. And that is absolutely about bringing large-scale change.

  

  David Holmgren
  • Trying
  • Acting
  • Negative

• Most people have desires that are great and they want to do great things, and they don't want to be negative people or they don't want to live in pessimistic attitudes, but the problem is a lot of them were not given the right tools. They were not given the right blueprint of how to build a building.

  

  Kirk Franklin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Things

• I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Optimistic
  • Pessimistic

• 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.

  

  Prince William
  • Life
  • Side
  • Life's

• I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Nature
  • Ideas
  • Pessimistic

• I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you that Al Gore's 10-year plan is impossible. I'm old enough to remember the Second World War - if we had a World War II-type mobilization, we might accomplish Gore's plan. In 1940 we were making tens of thousands of automobiles, and in 1941 we were making tens of thousands of airplanes. We mobilized as a nation. If we get that kind of mobilization as a nation or globally, then we could solve a lot of these problems.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• 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.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Culture
  • Thanks
  • Believer

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

  

  William Sanderson
  • Knows
  • Actors
  • Pessimistic

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

  

  William McFee
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Pessimistic

• I'm very pessimistic. And I don't see him back. The closer we get to June 1, you know, I don't think he'll be with us. I'll be watching someone else for the Titans. That's not what we intended, but it looks like that's the way it's going to be.

  

  Bud Adams
  • Way
  • Pessimistic
  • Titans

• I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Decision

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