#pessimist

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ↗

— Helen Keller

#discovered the secret #doorway #ever #human #human spirit

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#extends #other #pessimism #pessimists #point

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

#change

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

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#pessimist #prematurely #tells #truth #who

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

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#make #midnight #new #new year #old

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #although #been #behind #biggest

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#being #danger #depressing #life #pessimist

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#much #optimist #pessimist #worse

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#correct #events #ever #fun #march