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Pessimism Quotes

"Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle."
Vladimir Putin
"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole."
Sigmund Freud
"Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work."
Elon Musk
"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."
Woody Allen
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde
"The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children."
Maggie Smith
"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it."
Steven Wright
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true"
Robert Oppenheimer
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill
"You know why birds fly upside down over here? Because there ain't nothing worth crapping on."
Ted Lasso
"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails"
John C. Maxwell
"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man"
Friedrich Nietzsche