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Pessimism never won any battle.

» Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th President of the USA

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist -a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist -only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

» Emil Cioran (1911-1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

» George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

» James Baldwin (1924-1987) African-American writer

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

» John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2007) Canadian-American economist

There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

» Stendhal (1783-1842) French novelist

I doubt anyone will ever see - anywhere - a memorial to a pessimist.

» Anonymous (-)

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

» Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) Dutch humanist and theologian

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

» John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2007) Canadian-American economist

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life be

» Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist

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