Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.
Sherrilyn KenyonTags: pessimism sorrow sad scars respect
Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it.
"The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside.
"The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual."
"Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle."
"Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy."
"Also known as the good kind," he countered.
Abby huffed.
I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
G.K. ChestertonWhat’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior.
“I mentioned that you saw the thing and now they want to know what it looks like,” Hadrian explained. “What did you think? They were coming to lynch you?”
He shrugged. “What can I say? I’m a glass-half-empty kinda guy.”
“Half empty?” Hadrian chuckled. “Was there ever any drink in that glass?
Tags: pessimism
Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist - life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for.
NikNakTags: pessimism realism humourous
But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.
Faraaz KaziTags: life pessimism positive-thinking
So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing.
Shalom AuslanderHe wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.
Jack LondonTags: intelligence pessimism education writing writers real
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
G.K. ChestertonTags: optimism pessimism faith
Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
G.K. ChestertonTags: pessimism faith skepticism
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