Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old pessimism quotes, pessimism sayings, and pessimism proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.Jules Renard
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.Idries Shah
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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.William James
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.Bernard DeVoto
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Oscar Wilde
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.John Kenneth Galbraith
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.Harry S. Truman
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Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.Robert H. Schuller
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Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.Howard Zinn
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A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.Laurence J. Peter
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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.Helen Keller
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Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.Martin Heidegger
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.Arnold Bennett
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Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.Helen Keller
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Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.Antonio Gramsci
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.Orison Swett Marden
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In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.Daniel L. Reardon
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.Elbert Hubbard
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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.Chauncey Mitchell Depew
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.George F. Will
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.Winston Churchill
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.Oscar Wilde
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.William Arthur Ward
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Don't ever become a pessimist a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.Robert A. Heinlein
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
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Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.John Ralston Saul
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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.Chauncey Depew
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.Miguel de Unamuno
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Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.Edward C. Prescott