Pessimistic Quotes

I`m at the bottom of a well. I can`t communicate how dark my life is right now. I`m in a lot of trouble. I`ll do my best to solve the situation in an honorable way. I`m very sorry for my actions. I will spend the rest of my life if it takes it, trying to make it up with my wife. I`m pleased that my son isn`t able to compute what`s going on at the moment because that would be a heartbreaking thing. One thing that I don`t want to do is imply that I`m trying to make out it`s somebody else`s fault It`s not, I know it`s my fault, I`ve got to face up to it and deal with it. I`m not trying to be pessimistic, I`m just looking at what the situation is - it`s a seven-year jail sentence.

That`s something I find is really missing in films that portray love between people in their 60s or 70s. It generally lacks chemistry, like somehow that`s all died away, and that`s just not my experience of people in their 60s and 70s, that that whole part of yourself disappears somehow. It`s a really pessimistic and inaccurate attitude that a lot of films have had, so it was really important for me to have that vibrancy between them, because I`ve seen it in relationships that have lasted that long. And I haven`t seen it very often in films." - 2007 AP interview on "Away From Her

I`m not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can`t help but bless them for a good future. Because I can`t tell that child, "Oh, you shouldn`t have come into this life." And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.

`She looks for happiness, and will do whatever makes her happy. I`m very pessimistic. Sometimes, out of the blue, she will want to do all sorts of things. I can`t deal with that, I have to plan everything properly first.` (On co-star, Maggie Cheung.

When I look at the world I`m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

Am I optimistic or pessimistic? I?d have to say I?m anxious.

Am I optimistic or pessimistic? I`d have to say I`m anxious.

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there`s no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

We saw the market get so oversold that it`s not surprising that we`re getting a rebound. The market got too pessimistic about how rapidly the Fed will tighten next year.

The mood on the streets of Belfast has never been more pessimistic.