pessimism

Economic historian Robert Gordon calls himself “the prophet of pessimism.”

In reality,” Francis said, “theatrical severity and sterile pessimism are often symptoms of fear and insecurity.

My pessimism leads me to fight harder, or try to understand how I can do it differently.

Indeed, in some surveys pessimism about the next generation stands at an all-time high.

This pessimism—for all the discussion on campuses about “white privilege”—is even more deeply seated among young whites.

This pessimism is particularly intense among white working class voters, and large sections of the middle class.

Which simple sentence contains more wisdom than all the pessimism of the King of kings.

The disease of pessimism springs never from real troubles, which it braces men to bear, which it delights men to bear well.

If a fervent desire to help Man, instead of wasting time in prayer to "God," is pessimism, I am a pessimist.

Is the use of a danger signal at a hazardous crossing, for the purpose of preventing disaster, pessimism?

Though his pessimism be in great part born of his climate, it has had a very real effect upon his statecraft.