All Quotes By Tag: Pessimism
“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It’s not worth the tears of that one tortured child who…prayed..with…unexpiated tears to ‘dear,kind God!”
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“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.”
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“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”
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“Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”
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“There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won’t.”
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“If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.”
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“The optimist’s hope and the pessimist’s despair: reciprocal illusions.”
“Write your bane in a sand, your blessing in a stone.”
“It is because I reject lies and running away that I am accused of pessimism; but this rejection implies hope — the hope that truth may be of use. And this is a more optimistic attitude than the choice of indifference, ignorance or sham.”
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“My pessimism and cynicism knows no bounds, nothing truly surprises me these days. But when that little spark of optimism, of hope is alight, it burns really brightly in the darkness.”
“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.”
“With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.”
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“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.”
“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is.An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!”
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