Pessimistic Quotes

• I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.'

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Country
  • Become
  • Exploration

• I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

  

  Mike Judge
  • Real
  • Optimistic
  • Pessimistic

• 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.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Family
  • Philosophy

• I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

  

  Nathan Englander
  • Optimistic
  • Call
  • Pessimistic

• Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Moments
  • Evil

• I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'

  

  Emmet Gowin
  • Picture
  • Return
  • I Hope

• First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Perfect
  • Paradise
  • Buddhism

• I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

  

  Ryan Higa
  • Persons
  • Half
  • Empty

• People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

  

  Michael Robotham
  • People
  • Working
  • Cynical

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

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Justice
  • Pessimistic

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

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Obligation
  • Pessimistic

• It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Ideas
  • Optimistic
  • Optimism

• On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.

  

  Arthur Demarest
  • Civilization
  • Collapse
  • Pessimistic

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