Pessimistic View Quotes

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

The Freedom Caucus represents a pessimistic, divisive, and gerrymandered view of our nation. If America is to make progress, we must step forward from this form of politics - not just because we disagree with this or that policy but because it is fundamentally undemocratic and tyrannical.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

I'm a pessimist.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.

I prefer the European films that are like, 'No, it's over! They both die. The End.'

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

I'm a massive pessimist.

I've never been an optimist.

I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true about the world.

The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.

I'm not optimistic.

Being married sucked. Maybe for some people it is not meant to be.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]