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Music escapes ideological characterization. Just as there are some social scientists who believe that what cannot be measured does not truly exist, and some psychologists used to believe that consciousness does not exist because it cannot be observed by instruments, so ideologists find anything that escapes their conceptual framework threatening - because ideologists want a simple principle, or a few simple principles, by which all things may be judged. When I was a student, I lived with a hard-line dialectical materialist who said that Schubert was a typical petit bourgeois pessimist, whose music would die out once objective causes for pessimism ceased to exist. But I suspect that even he was not entirely happy with this formulation. ~ Theodore Dalrymple
Pessimist quotes by Theodore Dalrymple
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist. ~ Anthony Jeselnik
Pessimist quotes by Anthony Jeselnik
The glass is completely full...of shit. ~ Brian Spellman
Pessimist quotes by Brian Spellman
I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting. ~ Grumpy Cat
Pessimist quotes by Grumpy Cat
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. ~ Max Lerner
Pessimist quotes by Max Lerner
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear. ~ Uell Stanley Andersen
Pessimist quotes by Uell Stanley Andersen
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be. ~ James Jones
Pessimist quotes by James Jones
I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.
It never is, sir.
Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
I do my best to give satisfaction, sir. ~ Oscar Wilde
Pessimist quotes by Oscar Wilde
In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can. ~ Abel Aganbegyan
Pessimist quotes by Abel Aganbegyan
Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for. ~ C. JoyBell C.
Pessimist quotes by C. JoyBell C.
Optimists envision the best that could happen.
Pessimists envision the worst that could happen.
Pragmatists envision the likely to happen.
The pessimist finds many reasons to quit.
The optimist finds many reasons to keep going. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Pessimist quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Pessimist quotes by Richelle E. Goodrich
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. ~ Maynard James Keenan
Pessimist quotes by Maynard James Keenan
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Pessimist quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again. ~ James Buchan
Pessimist quotes by James Buchan
He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world. ~ William George Jordan
Pessimist quotes by William George Jordan
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right ~ Mark Twain
Pessimist quotes by Mark Twain
Are you ever not a pessimist?"
"Sometimes. But then I wake up. ~ Mira Grant
Pessimist quotes by Mira Grant
The Work of Art. When I watch the audience at a concert or the crowd in the picture gallery I ask myself sometimes what exactly is their reaction towards the work of art. It is plain that often they feel deeply, but I do not see that their feeling has any effect, and if it has no effect its value is slender. Art to them is only a recreation or a refuge. It rests them from the work which they consider the justification of their existence or consoles them in their disappointment with reality. It is the glass of beer which the labourer drinks when he pauses in his toil or the peg of gin which the harlot takes to snatch a moment's oblivion from the pain of life. Art for art's sake means no more than gin for gin's sake. The dilettante who cherishes the sterile emotions which he receives from the contemplation of works of art has little reason to rate himself higher than the toper. His is the attitude of the pessimist. Life is a struggle or a weariness and in art he seeks repose or forgetfulness. The pessimist refuses reality, but the artist accepts it. The emotion caused by a work of art has value only if it has an effect on character and so results in action. Whoever is so affected is himself an artist. The artist's response to the work of art is direct and reasonable, for in him the emotion is translated into ideas which are pertinent to his own purposes, and to him ideas are but another form of action. But I do not mean that it is only painters, poets and musicians who can resp ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Pessimist quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. ~ Francois Guizot
Pessimist quotes by Francois Guizot
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. ~ Robert G. Allen
Pessimist quotes by Robert G. Allen
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~ James Branch Cabell
Pessimist quotes by James Branch Cabell
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression. ~ Karel Appel
Pessimist quotes by Karel Appel
Although routinely criticized, a pessimist attitude enables a person never to be disappointed with the vagrancies of life or frustrated by the outcome of any event. A pessimist prepares for reality by considering every possible contingency. Having reckoned with the worst possible circumstances, and game planned what to do in the event of the most drastic outcome, a pessimist is pleasantly surprised when they achieve a better than expected result. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Pessimist quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. ~ Peter Benchley
Pessimist quotes by Peter Benchley
I am not a pessimist. I suffer and I complain, but I don't know if suffering is the general rule or if it is human to suffer... I am not a pessimist, I am merely sad. ~ Fernando Pessoa
Pessimist quotes by Fernando Pessoa
Don't ever become a pessimist ... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Pessimist quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to the Kingdom of God. I am convinced that all the works of humankind will be reintegrated in the work of God, and that each of us, no matter how sinful, will ultimately be saved. ~ Jacques Ellul
Pessimist quotes by Jacques Ellul
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ~ Winston S. Churchill
Pessimist quotes by Winston S. Churchill
The optimist says, "The glass is half full."
The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty."
The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
That makes it clear as glass. ~ Thomas Cathcart
Pessimist quotes by Thomas Cathcart
Men look to love and life for everything; they receive a little less than that; they imagine that they have received nothing: these are the three stages of the pessimist. ~ Will Durant
Pessimist quotes by Will Durant
Call me a pessimist, but I think if bigotry could be solved by access to more information, it would have been solved by now. Hate isn't about lack of understanding: it's about hate. ~ Hank Green
Pessimist quotes by Hank Green
If it didn't go all that well today, tomorrow is the opportunity that I have to do what I did today without doing it the way that I did it today. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Pessimist quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough
I heard about this man who fell into a pit, and while he was down there several people came by and offered their opinions. The Pharisee said, "You deserve to be in the pit." The Catholic said, "You need to suffer while you're in the pit." The Baptist said, "If you'd been saved, you wouldn't have fallen into the pit." The charismatic said, "Just confess I'm not in the pit." The mathematician said, "Let me calculate how you fell into the pit." The IRS agent said, "Have you paid taxes on that pit?" The optimist said, "Things could be worse." The pessimist said, "Things will get worse. ~ Joel Osteen
Pessimist quotes by Joel Osteen
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. ~ Ouida
Pessimist quotes by Ouida
I'm supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty," I told her.
Without a moment's hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: "It depends on if you're drinking or pouring. ~ Bill Cosby
Pessimist quotes by Bill Cosby
An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Pessimist quotes by G.K. Chesterton
Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. ~ J. Oswald Sanders
Pessimist quotes by J. Oswald Sanders
I am so far from being a pessimist ... on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. ~ Eugene O'Neill
Pessimist quotes by Eugene O'Neill
There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway? ~ Joe Posnanski
Pessimist quotes by Joe Posnanski
A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something ~ Ambrose Bierce
Pessimist quotes by Ambrose Bierce
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. ~ Helen Rowland
Pessimist quotes by Helen Rowland
It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Pessimist quotes by G.K. Chesterton
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ~ Helen Keller
Pessimist quotes by Helen Keller
In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them. ~ Hayao Miyazaki
Pessimist quotes by Hayao Miyazaki
To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train. ~ Joan Rivers
Pessimist quotes by Joan Rivers
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel. ~ Sydney J. Harris
Pessimist quotes by Sydney J. Harris
Obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. I'm an optimist, basically, who acts like a pessimist. On principle. Just in case. ~ Russell Banks
Pessimist quotes by Russell Banks
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. ~ Will Harvey
Pessimist quotes by Will Harvey
An optimist sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life? ~ Debasish Mridha
Pessimist quotes by Debasish Mridha
Life is what we make of it. A pessimistic person is constantly preparing for the worse possible scenario instead of enjoying what life proffers. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Pessimist quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
A half-naked, betel-chewing pessimist stood upon the bank of the tropical river, on the edge of the still and immense forests; a man angry, powerless, empty-handed, with a cry of bitter discontent ready on his lips; a cry that, had it come out, would have rung through the virgin solitudes of the woods as true, as great, as profound, as any philosophical shriek that ever came from the depths of an easy chair to disturb the impure wilderness of chimneys and roofs. ~ Joseph Conrad
Pessimist quotes by Joseph Conrad
To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Pessimist quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Pessimist quotes by Kahlil Gibran
We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!"
Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."
"Big doubts?" I said weakly.
The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said. ~ Kenneth Oppel
Pessimist quotes by Kenneth Oppel
Yes, I'm a pessimistic, cynical, grumpy old git. You only get that way through great trial and error. ~ George Banister
Pessimist quotes by George Banister
A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning. ~ Marty Rubin
Pessimist quotes by Marty Rubin
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.
Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Pessimist quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate. ~ Agnes Repplier
Pessimist quotes by Agnes Repplier
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. ~ Jack Nicholson
Pessimist quotes by Jack Nicholson
He was like an extrovert who wanted to be an introvert, a very social guy who wanted to be a loner, a lucky person who would have preferred to be unlucky. An optimist posing as a pessimist, hoping people will take heed. It wasn't until the Iraq War and the end of his life that he became sincerely gloomy. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Pessimist quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
Reading Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë after Jane Eyre is a curious experience. The subject of the biography is recognisably the same person who wrote the novel, but the effect of the two books is utterly different. The biography is indeed depressing and painful reading. It captures better, I believe, than any any
subsequent biography the introverted and puritan pessimist side of Charlotte Brontë, and conveys the real dreariness of the world of privation, critical discouragement and limited opportunity that
so often made her complain in her letters that she felt marked out for suffering.
Jane Eyre, on the other hand, is exhilarating reading, partly because the reader, far from simply pitying the heroine, is struck by her resilience, and partly because the novel achieves such an imaginative transmutation of the drab. Unlike that of Jane Austen's Fanny Price or Dickens's Arthur Clennam or John Harmon, Jane
Eyre's response to suffering is never less than energetic. The reader is torn between exasperation at the way she mistakes her resentments and prejudices for fair moral judgements, and admiration at the way she fights back. Matthew Arnold, seeking 'sweetness and light' was repelled by the 'hunger, rebellion and rage' that he
identified as the keynotes of the novel. One can see why, and yet feel that these have a more positive effect than his phrase allows. The heroine is trying to hold on to her sense of self in a world that gives it little en ~ Ian Gregor
Pessimist quotes by Ian Gregor
Perhaps it increased his annoyance that there was a certain unusual liveliness about the usually languid figure of Fisher. The ordinary image of him in March's mind was that of a pallid and bald-browed gentleman, who seemed to be prematurely old as well as prematurely bald. He was remembered as a man who expressed the opinions of a pessimist in the language of a lounger. Even now March could not be certain whether the change was merely a sort of masquerade of sunshine, or that effect of clear colors and clean-cut outlines that is always visible on the parade of a marine resort, relieved against the blue dado of the sea. But Fisher had a flower in his buttonhole, and his friend could have sworn he carried his cane with something almost like the swagger of a fighter. With such clouds gathering over England, the pessimist seemed to be the only man who carried his own sunshine. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Pessimist quotes by G.K. Chesterton
Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part. ~ Brian Spellman
Pessimist quotes by Brian Spellman
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ~ Harry Truman
Pessimist quotes by Harry Truman
I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments ... Always on to the next and never in the moment. ~ Nicki Minaj
Pessimist quotes by Nicki Minaj
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.' ~ Tyler Cowen
Pessimist quotes by Tyler Cowen
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. ~ Mark Twain
Pessimist quotes by Mark Twain
An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit. ~ Debasish Mridha
Pessimist quotes by Debasish Mridha
I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. ~ David Souter
Pessimist quotes by David Souter
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. ~ Carl Rogers
Pessimist quotes by Carl Rogers
In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing. ~ Esther Hicks
Pessimist quotes by Esther Hicks
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ~ Rene Descartes
Pessimist quotes by Rene Descartes
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon. ~ James Garner
Pessimist quotes by James Garner
The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole. ~ McLandburgh Wilson
Pessimist quotes by McLandburgh Wilson
The great thing about being a pessimist is you're always either completely right or pleasantly surprised. ~ J.K. Neve
Pessimist quotes by J.K. Neve
I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist. ~ Jules Breton
Pessimist quotes by Jules Breton
On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope. ~ Helen Caldicott
Pessimist quotes by Helen Caldicott
The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world. The emancipated poets of to-day have written it over the gates of this world. But if we are to understand the story which follows, we must erase that apocalyptic writing, if only for an hour. We must recreate the faith of our fathers, if only as an artistic atmosphere. If, then, you are a pessimist, in reading this story, forego for a little the pleasures of pessimism. Dream for one mad moment that the grass is green. Unlearn that sinister learning that you think is so clear, deny that deadly knowledge that you think you know. Surrender the very flower of your culture, give up the very jewel of your pride, abandon hopelessness, all ye who enter here. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Pessimist quotes by G.K. Chesterton
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. ~ Leonard Louis Levinson
Pessimist quotes by Leonard Louis Levinson
The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The chemist sees the glass completely full, half in liquid state and half in gaseous, both of which is probably poisonous. ~ Weike Wang
Pessimist quotes by Weike Wang
When I was a boy there were two curious men running about who were called the optimist and the pessimist. I constantly used the words myself, but I cheerfully confess that I never had any very special idea of what they meant. The only thing which might be considered evident was that they could not mean what they said; for the ordinary verbal explanation was that the optimist thought this world as good as it could be, while the pessimist thought it as bad as it could be. Both these statements being obviously raving nonsense, one had to cast about for other explanations. An optimist could not mean a man who thought everything right and nothing wrong. For that is meaningless; it is like calling everything right and nothing left. Upon the whole, I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Pessimist quotes by G.K. Chesterton
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. ~ Lesslie Newbigin
Pessimist quotes by Lesslie Newbigin
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Pessimist quotes by Elbert Hubbard
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. ~ Roberto Rossellini
Pessimist quotes by Roberto Rossellini
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Pessimist quotes by Elbert Hubbard
Happy isn't even a real idea," he said. "It's just like love. A reasonably skeptical person doesn't even know what it means. ~ Ethan Canin
Pessimist quotes by Ethan Canin
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. ~ William Ralph Inge
Pessimist quotes by William Ralph Inge
The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do. ~ Sylvester Stallone
Pessimist quotes by Sylvester Stallone
A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy. ~ Mark Samuels
Pessimist quotes by Mark Samuels
I have nothing against you
I just learned not to trust you
I know its a trial and error
But shit, I thought I'm a solver ~ Mr. Pessimist
Pessimist quotes by Mr. Pessimist
Authentic Christianity has a horror of the pessimism of inertia. It is pessimist, profoundly pessimist in the sense that it knows that the creature comes from nothingness, and that all that issues from nothing essentially tends of itself to return to nothing: but it's optimism is incomparably deeper than it's pessimism; for it knows that the creature comes from God, and all that comes from God tends to return to Him. ~ Jacques Maritain
Pessimist quotes by Jacques Maritain
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. ~ Idries Shah
Pessimist quotes by Idries Shah
No one knows enough to be a pessimist ~ Wayne W. Dyer
Pessimist quotes by Wayne W. Dyer
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.' ~ Zig Ziglar
Pessimist quotes by Zig Ziglar
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath. ~ Peter Greenaway
Pessimist quotes by Peter Greenaway
The pessimist says opportunities are NO WHERE. The optimist says opportunities are NOW HERE. Both see the same words, but read it differently. That's Life!-RVM ~ R.v.m.
Pessimist quotes by R.v.m.
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. ~ Jacques Barzun
Pessimist quotes by Jacques Barzun
Let's say there was no terrorism whatsoever and we were all very nice to one another and we were all kind, we still would be faced with an extremely cruel and hostile universe and existence and so I'm a great pessimist and I feel that it's impossible really to be happy, and that the best you can hope for is to be distracted. ~ Woody Allen
Pessimist quotes by Woody Allen
When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos ~ Michael Lewis
Pessimist quotes by Michael Lewis
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