Quotes tagged ‘Pessimism’

(45 total)

“There is no happiness in life. There is only a mirage on the horizon. So cherish that.”

“Sweetie, you know I support you, whatever you want to do, but you're not gonna find what you're looking for in these awful made-up places. The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventua…”

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Mr. Peanutbutter (voice), Paul F. Tompkins, imdb.com

“If we are thinking we cannot, we will not. If we are speaking of lack, limitation, and obstacles, we will find them at every turn.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“I used to have positive opinions about the world, you know, about people. Used to think the best. Now I'm looking over my shoulder. An unquiet mind, that's what the wife calls it. The job has got me staring into the fireplace, drinking. I never wanted to be the type to think big thoughts about the n…”

— Noah Hawley, Bill Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, imdb.com

“They say that “coming events cast their shadows before.” May they not sometimes cast their lights before?”

— Ada Lovelace, amazon.com

“For whom is it well, for whom is it well? There is no one for whom it is well.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The pessimist complains about wind. The optimist expects it to change. The realist adjusts the sails.”

— Lecrae, twitter.com

“Rust: I consider myself a realist, all right, but in philosophical terms, I’m what’s called a pessimist. Marty: Um, okay. What’s that mean? Rust: Means I’m bad at parties.”

— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com

“Everyone, at one time or another, entertains negative thoughts. Having the thoughts isn’t the problem, what sets us back is when we pay homage to them. When we keep entertaining them they become habitual, and pattern forming.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“If you find negativity in everything, everything will be negative for you.”

— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com

“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.”

— Unknown, tcat.tc

“A foolish optimist is only less noxious that an utter pessimist.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org

“You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in—in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.”

— Warren Buffett, cnbc.com

“Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.”

— Gina Lake, amazon.com

“A pessimistic & a self proclaimed "realist" is an easy way to claim failure before one has even tried something. BREAK that habit!”

— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com

“Bad Energy Blocks Blessings...”

— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com

“Your ways of negative thinking is getting in your way a lot more than you think.”

— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com

“Some of you believe your negativity is only going outwards and onto others... Meanwhile forgetting that energy returns in the same form it was released. You are planting seeds of self destruction”

— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com

“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“Pessimism is a misuse of your imagination.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com