#pessimist

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

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#beings #beneath #better #hope #human

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

— Jacques Barzun

#always #any #been #cheerful #history

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

#answered #best #creeds #dark #fears

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

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#get #i #just #long #mean

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#choice #chooses #evils #pessimist #two

A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#distancing-self #distrust #haunted #husband #jaded

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right. ↗

— Robert Mallet

#end #fear #how #many #order