Zitat des Tages über Pessimismus / Pessimism:
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
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.
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?
I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other option. You don't want that pessimism, because it is crushing you and keeping you down at the bottom of the well.
I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always felt like an Old Testament Jeremiah or Cassandra from ancient Greece. I want to run down the streets warning people.
I think, instead of the pessimism of the Remain campaign, we have an opportunity to think of the next generation. If we have faith in their talent, in their generosity, in their hard work, we can, if we leave the E.U., ensure the next generation makes this country once more truly great.
With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.
Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.
