Proverbs and quotes about pessimism.
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A pessimist is never disappointed.(unknown author)
A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.(unknown author)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.Winston Churchill
A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.
An optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears that this is so.(unknown author)
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.George Orwell
Source: 1984
Is the glass half empty or half full?A rhetorical question to indicate that there could be a cause for optimism (half full) or pessimism (half empty).
Old people are pessimists and young people are optimists because pessimists get old when they are 20 and optimists stay young all their life.Minkukel
Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently.Shimon Peres
Rust never sleeps.
Summer will not last for ever.
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
The optimist says, "the glass is half full".(unknown author)
The pessimist says, "the glass is half empty".
The rationalist says, "the glass is twice as big as it needs to be".
Things fall apart.
Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.
