#pessimist

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#hopes #man #optimist #pessimist #thinks

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ↗

— Tom Bodett

#difference #forget #forgets #laugh #laughs

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

A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#distancing-self #distrust #haunted #husband #jaded

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

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. ↗

— Sean O'Faolain

#gay #kind #over #pessimists #pitiful

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

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

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#pessimistic #unseemly