Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"If it's not one thing, it's your mother."
Pessimistic quotes
Pessimistic
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Cornel West
Philosopher
"The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark."
Naguib Mahfouz
Novelist
"At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic."
Elmer Bernstein
Composer
"I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion."
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"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain."
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"If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed."
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"My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times."
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"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."
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"No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion."
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"My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism."
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"How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be."
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"I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope."
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"To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism."
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"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."
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"I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person."
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"Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive."
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