The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.
Thomas LigottiTag: pessimism dreams vastarien
Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.
Brandon SandersonTag: pessimism brandon-sanderson elantris
I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.
David BenioffTag: inspirational pessimism history story world-war-ii jewish jews russia russian ww2 city-of-thieves
That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.
David BenioffTag: inspirational pessimism history story world-war-ii jewish jews russia russian ww2 city-of-thieves
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Joyce Carol OatesTag: optimism pessimism hope best worst pragmatism
This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?
Marguerite YourcenarTag: pessimism philosophy
See the moon? It hates us.
Donald BarthelmeTag: pessimism philosophy
In my heart's most secret place,
I pity them as angels do.
Tag: pessimism philosophy
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
Franz KafkaTag: pessimism philosophy
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
Criss JamiTag: optimism perception pessimism negative empty glass full positivity les negativity righteous righteous-pessimism
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