#pessimist

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

— Jacques Barzun

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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

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. ↗

— Tony Blair

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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ↗

— Tom Bodett

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In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#current #live #pessimistic #world

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

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I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#general #i #live #only #people

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#feel #i #i feel #i think #myself

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is. ↗

— H. R. Giger

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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

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