#pessimist

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

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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

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We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were. ↗

— Mary Shelley

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I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. ↗

— Peter Benchley

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A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

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Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. ↗

— William Beveridge

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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

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

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

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