#pessimist

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

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#being #danger #depressing #life #pessimist

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. ↗

— Paul Getty

#cynic #deny #i #i was born #pessimist

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. ↗

— Paul Harvey

#been #better #buried #ever #every

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. ↗

— Paul Harvey

#i #monument #never #pessimist #seen

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. ↗

— Will Harvey

#i #monument #never #pessimist #seen

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#correct #events #ever #fun #march

People don't like to follow pessimists. ↗

— Bob Iger

#like #people #pessimists