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  • Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

    Optimistic   Gay   Kind  
  • Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

  • A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

    Sunset   Dirt   Window  
  • I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

    FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 31, 2011
  • I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

    Reality   Iraq   Realist  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

  • Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

    Heart   People   May  
    James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC
  • A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

    Funny   Women   Silly  
    "FPA Book of Quotations : A New Collection of Famous Sayings". Book by Franklin Pierce Adams, 1952.
  • Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

    Dog   Horse   Motivation  
    Letter to James F. Morton (1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 483), 1996.
  • I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

  • Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

    Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin
  • Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

  • I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon." "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.

    Beautiful   Song   Dad  
    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.

  • A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

    Crazy   Air   Mad  
  • Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism.

  • The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?

  • Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

    Twitter post from Feb 02, 2017
  • Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

  • an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

    Eye   Men   Feet  
    Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
  • I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments. Always on to the next and never in the moment.

    Smell   Rose   Next  
    "Nicki Minaj Continues Newsstand Domination With Complex Cover" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. March 20, 2012.
  • The first line in the first Gasland is: “I’m not a pessimist. I’ve always had a great deal of faith in people that we won’t succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we’ll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.” I have not lost that sense.

    People   Greed   Lines  
    "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.
  • I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

  • Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.

    Lying   Optimistic   Men  
    Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.

  • A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

  • I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  • "I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

    "Wilde Complete Plays".
  • Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to the Kingdom of God. I am convinced that all the works of humankind will be reintegrated in the work of God, and that each of us, no matter how sinful, will ultimately be saved.

    Race   Kingdoms   Matter  
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