pessimism, n.All

Pessimism is important to society just as optimism is... the optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

Pessimism is an alienated form of despair, just as optimism is an alienated form of faith.

Pessimism is complaining about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Pessimism is believing that life is a car wash and that one is on a bike.

Pessimism is nice in that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Pessimism is moral squinting... i.e. Being incapable of a straightforward view and instead imagining that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust.

Pessimism is, in the long run, likely proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.