#pessimist

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

— Peter Benchley

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A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

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Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. ↗

— William Beveridge

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If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

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If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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

— Walter Winchell

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