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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Don Marquis

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

Émile Durkheim

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

Desiderius Erasmus

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Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Helen Keller

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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

Emil Cioran

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

George Will

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

Mark Twain

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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Thomas Hardy

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Pessimism never won any battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Elias Canetti

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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

James Baldwin

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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

Heywood Broun

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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

George Will

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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Agnes Repplier

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The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

Susan Sontag

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There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.

Mark Twain

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

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

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

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

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

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

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

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

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Pessimism never won any battle.

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

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.

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

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