#pessimist

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ↗

— Rene Descartes

#blow #light #may #must #none

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own. ↗

— David Eddings

#general #going #hold #opinion #own

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films. ↗

— Spike Lee

#find #hope #i #i think #pessimist

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war. ↗

— John Linder

#died #long #lost #many #our

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own. ↗

— Titus Livius

#fear #influence #leads #magnified #men

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. ↗

— James Lovelock

#even #going #happen #i #i do

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#clown #gogh #i #like #look

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#feel #i #movies #now #pessimistic

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ↗

— Helen Keller

#discovered the secret #doorway #ever #human #human spirit

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it. ↗

— January Jones

#ball #because #believe #drop #everything