#pessimism

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#pessimism

How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem is awful make me feel any better? You mean I could sink even lower? Oh joy! ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#pessimism #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sarcasm #sarcasm-humor

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#optimism #pessimism #change

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world. ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#pessimism #vastarien #dreams

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down ↗

— Charles Chaplin

#optimism #pessimism #wonder #inspirational

‎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 Benioff

#history #inspirational #jewish #jews #pessimism

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism! ↗

— Matthew Quick

#pessimism #inspirational

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#emotions #optimism #pessimism #thinking #attitude

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular. ↗

— Brando Skyhorse

#faith #irony #pessimism #religion #trinity

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#jealousy #pessimism #jealousy