By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.
Warren EllisTags: optimism suicide misanthropy
I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.
Neal ShustermanTags: optimism ambition failure irony
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
William Arthur WardI would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd like them to feel that this was an experience that made things better for them and an experience that gave them hope. I think that the kind of things that we talk about at this conference -- fantasy very much so, science fiction, and even horror -- the message that we're sending is the reverse of the message sent by what is called "realistic fiction." (I happen to think that realistic fiction is not, in fact, realistic, but that's a side issue.) And what we are saying is that it doesn't have to be like this: things can be different. Our society can be changed. Maybe it's worse, maybe it's better. Maybe it's a higher civilization, maybe it's a barbaric civilization. But it doesn't have to be the way it is now. Things can change. And we're also saying things can change for you in your life. Look at the difference between Severian the apprentice and Severian the Autarch [in The Book of the New Sun], for example. The difference beteween Silk as an augur and Silk as calde [in The Book of the Long Sun]. You see?
We don't always have to be this. There can be something else. We can stop doing the thing that we're doing. Moms Mabley had a great line in some movie or other -- she said, "You keep on doing what you been doing and you're gonna keep on gettin' what you been gettin'." And we don't have to keep on doing what we've been doing. We can do something else if we don't like what we're gettin'. I think a lot of the purpose of fiction ought to be to tell people that.
Tags: optimism change hope fantasy fiction science-fiction horror
Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).
Hexe ClaireTags: optimism pessimistic realistic
Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.
J.R.R. TolkienWhat's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.
Jennifer BelleMost of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. BrandeisTags: optimism tenacity hopeful
We’ll never survive!”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
Tags: humor optimism doubt survival
Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
Robert JordanTags: optimism
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