How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any better? You mean I could sink even lower? Oh joy!
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: pessimism sarcasm encouragement trials richelle sarcasm-humor richelle-goodrich
A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time.
Dan ArielyTags: pessimism happiness realism social-sciences phsychology
Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.
Émile ZolaTags: science pessimism religion
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
Émile ZolaTags: life pessimism zola regrets
And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
Jeff LindsayTags: pessimism chance right failure dexter dexter-morgan morgan predict
Y al final dejó el horror de esta vida para entrar en el horror de la muerte.
Fernando VallejoIf there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
Henry David ThoreauTags: pessimism government cynical
You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!
Matthew QuickTags: inspirational pessimism
You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner or later you have to ask yourself, or the person with you, ‘will there be everything we have hoped for?’ When you realise there’s so little hope left, it is like seeing an entire shadow all over the world.
Kyra GregoryTags: inspirational optimism pessimism happiness love sadness living life-lessons
To see all pessimists as pessimists is to be a pessimist.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: pessimism
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