Pessimistic Views Quotes

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

We're in a political environment of competing pessimisms today.

Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.

This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments.