Pessimism

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

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Pessimism never won any battle.

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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

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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.

- Emile Durkheim Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 becomes child's play.

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

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