Pessimistic Quotes

As you are,
I was once was
As I am,
You will someday be ~ Quote seen on a headstone.

From the above pessimistic quote carved on a headstone, one understands who is a pessimist. The person in the grave means to say, 'I was alive once, just as you are now. Soon, you too will be dead, just as I am now'. The departed soul may have been a pessimist all his/her life, and even after death, the person still believes things will go wrong with life. Pessimists always believe nothing good will come out of any difficulty, opportunity, happiness and even sorrow. Get over negativity, try positive thinking for a change.

A pessimist is the person who always finds the glass half empty. They are programmed to see the dark side of every angle in life. Maybe because these pessimistic souls were hurt so deep, that they express their pain through their negative thoughts. Or maybe they help create the 'Yin Yang' balance in life. If every one of us was so joyful and positive about everything in life, it would not have been possible to gulp down the bitter pill offered to us on a tin platter. Let us have a look at some of the pessimistic quotes that help us have a look at the other side of coin, that helps bring us face to face to the bitter truth time to time.

Pessimistic Quotes about Life

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. ~ Hazel Henderson

Your morning thoughts may determine your conduct for the day. Optimistic thoughts will make your day bright and productive, while pessimistic thinking will make it dull and wasteful. Face each day cheerfully, smilingly and courageously, and it will naturally follow that your work will be a real pleasure and progress will be a delightful accomplishment. ~ William M. Peck

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ~ Winston Churchill

A pessimist will expect the worst to happen in every situation. Consequently, they are proven right so often, that they will start to believe they are able to predict the future.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~ Bill Vaughan

No sense in begin a pessimist, it won't work anyway.

I failed everyone to prepare you for a lifetime of inevitable disappointments. ~ A pessimistic teacher.

Pessimistic Quotes about Love

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. ~ Robert Oppenheimer

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half- empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. ~ Janeane Garofalo

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ~ Ziggy.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. ~ Voltaire

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ~ Elbert Hubbard

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening. ~ Kin Hubbard

A pessimist only sees 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 L. Levinson

Funny Pessimistic Quotes

Borrow money from a pessimist, they never expect it back.

Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.

We live in an age, when pizzas gets to your home before the police.

The only way to double you money is to fold it into half and put it back into your pocket.

Your future depends on your dreams, so go to sleep.

I stopped fighting my inner demons, we are on the same side now.

These were a few pessimism and pessimistic quotes about life and love. I even find some of the funny pessimistic quotes with an optimistic streak in them. It's actually all about the way you see life. You can call the glass half full or half empty. Both are facts of life that one can't change. But, what you can change is your attitude. Expect something better from the worse, maybe you land in more trouble than you are at present. This is what makes life worth living, that is, to keep fighting for better and for worse.