#pessimist

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#answered #best #creeds #dark #fears

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#general #i #live #only #people

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

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

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#future #optimists #past #pessimists #traditionalists

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#i #i am #look #optimistic #people

Sometimes it's like I'm living my life waiting for more bad news. ↗

— Evan Kuhlman

#pessimistic #life

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

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ↗

— George Will

#being #constantly #either #nice #part

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. ↗

— William Golding

#optimist #pessimist #nature