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250 Pessimistic quotes

250 quotes of pessimism written or said by illustrious and not so illustrious characters, past, present and future. Digital Pessimism.

Pessimism is the metaphysical doctrine according to which the world is irrevocably evil, and therefore everything in nature and in human life tends to the production and conservation of evil. The main representative of analogical pessimism is Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and the digital one, Koke Mandrágora (1970-?),

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Oscar Wilde

The pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both

Howard Pattee

It is better to be pessimistic and find out you are wrong, than to be optimistic and find out nothing

Anónimo

Optimistic is one who thinks he can solve a traffic jam by touching the horn

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The optimist believes in others and the pessimist only believes in himself

Franz Kafka

A good opportunity to despair a little, he thought, if I were here by chance and not by my own will

Friedrich Nietzsche

The monkeys are too good for that man can descend from them

Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us

Najib Razak

Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation’s future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism

Bruce Springsteen

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it’s all at, it’s what lights the fire

William James

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power

Daniel Pennac

Guys, the fat cows are gone! The sweet loves are over! Stop and AIDS for everyone, that’s what awaits you. Yes, that’s what parents or teachers inculcate in the following years to “motivate” them more. A speech like a sky full of clouds. That was what made little Nathalie cry.

Luis Eduardo Aute

Capitalism is a system built on corruption, that does not mean that in other systems there are no corrupt people, but capitalism is a corrupt system in itself

Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself

Frédéric Beigbeder

The truth is always a disappointment, which is why everybody lies

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

With good humor and pessimism it is neither possible nor wrong nor boring

Anonymous

Hitler and the Nazis were very optimistic about the future of humanity

Jaron Lanier

Web 2.0 ideas have a cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future

Steve Toltz

Optimism isn’t funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It’s exaggeration.

John Ortberg

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader

Francis Parker Yockey

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

David Rakoff

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect

Marie van Ebner-Eschenbach

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy!

Thomas Jefferson

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper

Josh Billings

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously

Bertrand Russell

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt

Mark Twain

It often seems like a pity that Noe and everyone in his group did not miss the boat

Platon

Those who are very smart not to get into politics suffer the punishment of being ruled by those who are more stupid

Marlene Dietrich

If there is a Supreme Being, it must be crazy

Ann Landers

The poor want to be rich, the rich want to be happy; Singles want to get married, and married, die

Nicolas-Sébastien Chamfort

Living is a disease from which sleep releases us every sixteen hours. It is only a palliative. The remedy is death

Herbert Frankel

Life is a hard business from which no one comes alive

Blaise Pascal

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive

Anonymous

During the wreck, the last sinking are the optimists

Whitney Houston

Didn’t We Almost Have It All?

Julie Norem

We have expected too much from life, but life is what it is and even less

Bertrand Russell

A pessimist is an unfriendly fool and an optimist, a nice fool because neither of them know what will happen

Elena Ferrante

I reacted by explaining, in fact, that I had not won anything, that there was nothing to gain in the world, that his life was full of different adventures and wild like mine, and that time simply slipped without meaning

Mario Puzo

Well, that’s life. We can all tell sad stories. I will not do it.

Albert Ellis

We have a tendency to set up self-destructive habits, in part because we learn from our parents and our culture. Consequently, they are often stronger and more difficult to uproot than the more positive and healthier beliefs

Leopoldo Alas

Only virtue has powerful arguments against pessimism

Amado Nervo

Sadness is a godsend, pessimism is a disease of the spirit

Ernesto Sabato

Some will suppose that, by my way of being, propensity to melancholy and pessimism, these 90 years with which the charge ended up discouraging me; However, it is quite the opposite.

Ian Mcewan