#pessimist

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#beings #beneath #better #hope #human

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. ↗

— Henry Adams

#anarchist #art #i #i am #impressionist

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#always #any #been #cheerful #history

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#get #i #just #long #mean

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

— Maynard James Keenan

#pessimist #responsibility #sense

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Oscar Wilde

#choice #chooses #evils #pessimist #two

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

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

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

— William Ralph Inge

#christianity #optimism #pessimist #radical #system