#pessimist

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. ↗

— Will Harvey

#been #better #buried #ever #every

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#pessimist #responsibility #sense

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#choice #chooses #evils #pessimist #two

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#grandma #life #optimist #perspective #pessimist

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full or part empty? Take another sip. And now? ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cool #drink #drinking #empty #full

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right. ↗

— Robert Mallet

#end #fear #how #many #order

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#fears #optimist #pessimist #possible #possible worlds

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

#after #day #i #optimist #pessimist

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#christianity #optimism #pessimist #radical #system

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#experience #humanity #meliorist #optimist #pessimist