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"The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster."

Susan Sontag

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"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."

Thomas Hardy

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"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back."

Author Unknown

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"Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room -- others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?"

William Ward

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"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

James A. Baldwin

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"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself."

George Bernard Shaw

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom."

Mark Twain

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"Pessimism never won any battle."

Dwight David Eisenhower

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"A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist."

Elbert Hubbard

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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."

Heywood Broun

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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

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"If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning."

Damien Cannon

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"In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."

Daniel Readon

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"I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist."

Source Unknown

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"Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down."

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Bill Clinton

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"Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression."

E. M. Cioran

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"The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced."

Agnes Repplier

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