I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint EastwoodWhat New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing
Willem LangeTag: humor pessimism new-england disappointment dry-humor perplexing wry
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard ShawTag: humor optimism pessimism funny
There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.
Jules RenardTag: pessimism
We're all free and equal to die like dogs
Peter WeissTag: pessimism
...if you live feeling like
Your glass is half empty, well,
It may as well be empty all the way.
Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has produced a countervailing conviction that educating, organizing, uniting, and acting will make a difference.
David T. DellingerTag: pessimism education political resistance
You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?
Jim ButcherTag: optimism pessimism harry-dresden thomas-raith
It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.
P.D. JamesTag: pessimism aliens intelligent-life
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.
P.D. JamesTag: pessimism futility the-future posterity
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