#pessimist

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#corruption #even #focus #get #institutions

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#friendship #pessimistic #reality #wise #friendship

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

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#builds #dungeons #pessimist #who

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 think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#even #hoped #i #i think #little