#pessimist

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us. ↗

— Jane Rule

#became #even #gay #inspire #legislation

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. ↗

— Nate Silver

#economists #economy #even #more #most

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#attitude #blessings #life #optimist #outlook

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#pessimism #pessimists #point #sincerity #suspecting

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#life #paul-and-virginie #paul-et-virginie #pessimism #pessimistic

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#death #desperation #french-literature #life #paul-et-virginie

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#humour #pessimistic #writing #creativity

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

— Jacques Barzun

#always #any #been #cheerful #history

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

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