Solomon and Horace, Petrarch and Shakespeare werepessimists when they were melancholy, and optimists when they were happy.
We insist that the ascetics were pessimists because they gave up threescore years and ten for an eternity of happiness.
The number of pessimists it is of course impossible to compute: instinctive pessimists abound everywhere, but however limited the number of theoretic pessimists may be, their literature at least is daily increasing.
To these replies the pessimists have but one rejoinder, and that is that any hope of the expansion of happiness is an illusion.
For the Socialists, while pessimists as to the present, have optimistic views for the future.
Croakers, and the pessimists whose idea of duty is to hinder and delay, were pleasantly pushed out of place, so that optimists, with vision and the will to do, might get to work.
But the pessimists will not, we may trust, succeed.
His buoyant optimism was based on a chronic experience of physical pain, for pessimists like Schopenhauer are usually men in comfortable circumstances, and of excellent bodily health.
At heart, Stevenson belongs not to the pessimists nor the skeptics, but to the optimists and the believers.
For long the pessimists in Britain had been proclaiming that the diminution of the governor-general's authority and {324} responsibility would end the connection.
Hartmann and the pessimists believe that the social reform which is called socialism will come, but that afterwards, it will be succeeded by something else.
Perhaps the need of losing consciousness justifies the axiom of the pessimists that consciousness is the beginning of suffering.
There are still many pessimists of this second period alive among us, and actively proclaiming their gospel of despair, alike in England and in Germany.
Thus the pessimists of the second period were faced by horrors on both sides.
The "General Idea" of this campaign remained absolute darkness; and already pessimists began to fear that Christmas would not see them back at home.
For at dawn the cheeriest optimist is a pessimist, while at midday pessimistsbecome optimists.
The giddy and the careless paid no heed, but pessimists and ones grown old on the sunset side of the Missouri took on brows of trouble.
The pessimists declared that two or three paragraphs were all they could expect, on account of the silly fashion of not publishing details of engagements.
We cut our patterns into very definite conclusions because we were pessimists and sure of ourselves.
Of course, it is a long shot and the young pessimists are much too logical to wait for such miraculous chances.
Our young American pessimists see man at the moment he drops beside the road, and without further investigation decide that it is all up with him.
On the other side our idealist pessimists were represented by the old remnant of the Stoics.
I shall speak in the next chapter about optimists and pessimists in their intellectual aspect, so far as they have one.
Pagan optimists and Eastern pessimists would both have temples, just as Liberals and Tories would both have newspapers.
Pessimists assured him that his cattle would die like flies during the winter.
However big you build the house, it won't be big enough for two women," pessimists had remarked.
Now war arises from the same psychic conditions as the antisocial actions of these born criminals, and therefore the pessimists may be right in maintaining that it can never be abolished.
The writer above quoted from says of this period: "The pessimists were faced by horrors on both sides.
There are still many pessimists of this class alive among us even today, alike in England and Germany, but a new generation is growing up, and this question is now entering another phase.
There is some truth in this contention; but it would seem that the soil and climate have not been affected so much as the pessimists suppose, because in recent years there have been some very good harvests.
This is not much for a big country like Russia, but it is a beginning, and it suggests that the impoverishment is not so severe and so universal as the pessimists would have us believe.
At the worst extreme optimists are only fools on the right side, whereas pessimists are bores and beasts on the wrong one.
I wish that the infernal pessimists whose presence blackens London would learn this.
Pessimists have had a high old time all this month.
It sounded logical and even the chronic grumblers and habitual pessimists in the group were encouraged.
The pessimists worried about the Russians blowing us up, and the optimists were sure we had a glorious future in the conquest of space.
On the metaphysics of the pessimists I shall make no comment save that there appears to be here sufficient vagueness to satisfy the most poetical of minds.
There are lazy pessimists and resigned ones in this world--and it is to their number that we refuse to belong!
Pessimists would probably consider this a doubtful blessing, but, on the whole, it would prove a great boon.
The death of Leonid Andreef removes the most savage pessimist of all the pessimists who have come out of modern Russia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pessimists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
