The poems of Henri Cazalis, who has preferred to give his later works to the public under the nom de plume Jean Lahor, have the grave pessimism of Leconte de Lisle, but with more of buddhistic resignation.
Punch did not share the late Canon Liddon's pessimism over the new Science degree at Oxford in 1879.
What is the remedy for the pessimismthat asks, "Is life worth living?
On the contrary, pessimism comes with civilization, and it generally attacks men and women of a higher culture.
It is only when the distinctive asceticism is eliminated and its extreme pessimism is destroyed by a rational optimism that it becomes a real blessing to humanity.
She laid her hand again upon his arm and spoke eagerly, forgetting in a moment his pessimism and the little cloud it had brought across her happiness.
Pessimism cannot sing because it has no hope, and cannot pray because it has no faith.
To pessimism the heavens are closed and silent; the world has no windows opening toward the Infinite.
But youth that does not like pessimism reads Hardy avidly.
Already it begins to appear that the inconsistent, half-conscious Will that was the sum and substance of Hardy's pessimism was given certain attributes of gloom that scarcely belonged to it.
But the master prepares for them trivial error, unhappy coincidence, unnecessary misfortune, until it is not surprising if the analytic mind insists that he is laboring some thesis of pessimism to be worked out by concrete example.
The pessimism of the master is as little likely as his high philosophy to have reached the mind or the heart of the people.
It did not say, but it implied, that creation was a mistake; and if it did not profess pessimism, pessimism was its logical outcome.
Although the pessimism which claims authorisation from Darwin's doctrines is repugnant to them, they still are unable to accept the dualism which leaves a gulf between man and nature.
He overcame Pessimism by discovering an object in existence; he saw the possibility of raising society to a higher level and preached the profoundest Optimism in consequence.
He was among the first thinkers of Europe to overcome the pessimism which godlessness generally brings in its wake.
The realisation of such facts as these produced a period of pessimism which marks the second stage in this evolution.
The new generation rejects alike the passive optimism of the first period and the passive pessimism of the second period.
If critics have been able to find seeds of skepticism and of pessimism in Bergson,[95] these characters are at any rate foreign to any intention visible in its author.
All her life she had never believed in her luck, with thatpessimism of the passionate who at bottom feel themselves to be the outcasts of a morally restrained universe.
Fyne went so far in his display of cynical pessimism as to say that it was extremely probable.
Most of the essential melancholy of the world is due to this realization, and most of the feeling of pessimism and futility thus has its origin.
With others Pessimism has deeper roots and finds its expression in the poetry or philosophy of real despair.
Another source of Pessimism is the reaction from unearned pleasures and from spurious joys.
To see things as they really are" is the purpose of the philosophy of Pessimism in the hands of its worthiest exponents.
The Pessimism of youth vanishes with the coming of life.
For it is the essence of this form of Pessimism to feel that there is nothing on earth worth the trouble of building.
No impending panic seems evident, but a ripple of pessimism exists.
As the evening advanced and the cocktails expanded, that pessimism dissipated.
A great deal of the discouragement and pessimism about missions today is born of this statistical craze.
The majority of us, I apprehend, profess neither pessimism nor optimism.
Pessimism is as little consonant with the facts of sentient existence as optimism.
If the optimism of Leibnitz is a foolish though pleasant dream, the pessimism of Schopenhauer is a nightmare, the more foolish because of its hideousness.
In spite of pessimismand cynicism a hope of change is communicated to the spectator, which penetrates depression and stimulates the curiosity to live.
He passed through the fatalism of Hartmann, the pessimism of Schopenhauer, the naturalism of Zola, the realism of Turgenev and Dostoevsky.
In the said third book of the Stromata of Clement the antagonism between optimism with theism on the one hand, and pessimism with ascetic morality on the other, comes out with surprising distinctness.
I confess I was now rather bewildered by so serious a difference of estimate as to the cost of a partnership, but I was inclined to set down Sir Asher's scepticism to that pessimism which is the penalty of professional philanthropy.
But Mabel's pessimism was not to be banished even by the supper champagne.
There was, in fact, a strongly-marked vein of pessimism in Kant.
In fact, upon the neutral fact of evolution a theory of pessimism may be built up as speciously as a theory of optimism.
Footnote: Kant's pessimism has been studied at length by von Hartmann, in Zur Geschichte und Begrundung des Pessimismus (1880).
And medieval pessimism as to man's mundane condition was darker and sterner than the pessimism of the Greeks.
With the loss of freedom pessimism increased, and the Greek philosophies of resignation were needed more than ever.
The cyclical theory was curiously revived in the nineteenth; century by Nietzsche, and it is interesting to note his avowal that it took him a long time to overcome the feeling of pessimism which the doctrine inspired.
This instinctive pessimism of the Greeks had a religious tinge which perhaps even the Epicureans found it hard entirely to expunge.
