Pessimistic Quotes

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

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

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

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

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

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

You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.

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.

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.

No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

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.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

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

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

Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.

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?

I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.

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

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

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

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.

Don't be pessimistic Because, today, the sun hasn't shone It probably won't next year And you'll then be 61

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

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

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

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

If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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

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

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

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

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

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

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

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

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.