Pessimism Quotes

22 quotations about Pessimism

No good deed goes unpunished.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

Pessimism never won any battle.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.

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

Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

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