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  • Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away

  • Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.
  • As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in pessimism. If you think failure is inevitable, that view will probably become self-fulfilling.

    Believe   Thinking   Self  
    "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.
  • Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

    Heart   People   May  
    James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC
  • Dark times have come, but in spite of this we have not yet reached a twilight of the gods and even today we have no reason for doubt-filled pessimism, for the Wihinei of the Aryo-Germanics is too deep - even if unconscious and latent - rooted in every Aryo-Germanic soul and it awaits onl the call to awaken which will and must catch fire in order to instill the flame of inspiration in the Aryo-Germanic sensibility.

  • Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

    Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.31, Rabindranath Tagore
  • A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

    Funny   Women   Silly  
    "FPA Book of Quotations : A New Collection of Famous Sayings". Book by Franklin Pierce Adams, 1952.
  • Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

    Pope Francis' address to The College Of Cardinals, w2.vatican.va. March 15, 2013.
  • Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

    Fear   Pessimism   Born  
  • I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

    Believe   Book   Luck  
  • The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

    "Willen in der Natur". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, chapter 'Einleitung', 1836.
  • Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

  • I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

    "The Money Man: Super-economist Joseph Stiglitz on how to fix the recession". Interview with Sean O'Grady, www.independent.co.uk. February 9, 2010.
  • The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

  • There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

    Law   Optimism   Triumph  
    Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”
  • Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

  • Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.

    Friendly   Done   Answers  
  • Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

  • A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

    Crazy   Air   Mad  
  • You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

  • Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.

    "World of Investing : The rewards of a long view" by James K. Glassman, International Herald Tribune, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2004.
  • an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

    Eye   Men   Feet  
    Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
  • 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.

    Sadness   Mean   Doe  
    Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge
  • There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

  • I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

    FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Feb 22, 2015
  • Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

  • The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

    Book   Garden   Thinking  
  • Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

    Arthur, Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.55, Aegitas
  • If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

    Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1524, Delphi Classics
  • Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

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