Pessimism Quotes

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed - it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Let me declare expressly that in the days when mankind was not yet ashamed of its cruelty, life on earth was more cheerful than it is now that pessimists exist.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Some people like to remain in 'Nirasha'. And they are not satisfied till they have spoken about it to other people.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.