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Quotes about pessimism
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. (Broun Heywood)
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. (Broun Heywood)
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. (Broun Heywood)
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. (Broun Heywood)
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. (Broun Heywood)
Pessimism never won any battle. (Broun Heywood)
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. (Broun Heywood)
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. (Broun Heywood)
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. (Broun Heywood)
A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist. (Broun Heywood)
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. (Broun Heywood)
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train. (Broun Heywood)
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. (Broun Heywood)
In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. (Broun Heywood)
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. (Broun Heywood)
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself. (Broun Heywood)
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. (Broun Heywood)
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. (Broun Heywood)
There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist. (Broun Heywood)
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. (Broun Heywood)
I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist. (Broun Heywood)
A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. (Broun Heywood)
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. (Broun Heywood)
Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. (Broun Heywood)
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air. (Broun Heywood)
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