#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

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

— Sean O'Faolain

#gay #kind #over #pessimists #pitiful

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

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#care #choice #empty #full #glass

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#pessimistic #real #pessimism

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. ↗

— Robert M. Sapolsky

#pessimistic #self #pessimism

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful ↗

— Ernest Cline

#pessimistic #they-might-be-giants #tmbw #beauty

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#am #anew #day #every #every day

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#make #midnight #new #new year #old