“Throughout the conversation, Blondel expressed a deep pessimism about the future.”

“It is an immoral indulgence to wallow in romantic pessimism or warmed-over Stoicism.”

“Those in a state of chronic ingratitude often exhibit indignation, disillusionment, and pessimism with mankind.”

“My suspicions don't mean that I am a doom-monger or cynical pessimist, but utopian thinking hasn't led to very happy ends in the past.”

“The shop was owned by a bald-headed pessimist who had once been a gold prospector in Canada.”

“A pessimist, they say, is someone passionate who has been disappointed on too many occasions.”

“This ideologically diverse group is made up of cultural pessimists, environmentalists, traditionalists, egalitarians, and technophobes.”

“Optimists may say that the glass is half-full, pessimists that the glass is half-empty.”

“They were pessimists, who refused to see history in terms of progress, and instead saw it as a desperate struggle against degeneration.”