pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.

I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I...

Les optimistes et les pessimistes ont un grand défaut qui leur est commun : ils ont peur de la vérité

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It’s not worth the tears of that one tortured child who…prayed..with…unexpiated tears to ‘dear,kind God!

A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning.

I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand...

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as...

De leur meilleur côté t chons de voir les choses:Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers épineux;Moi je me réjouis et rends gr ces aux dieuxQue les épines aient des roses.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

Fuck you! I hope you die!””Everybody Dies,” I said. “So fuck you.

If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

He has no doubts, there is nothing you can say to sway him, to give him hope or trust. He is a miserable animal whose body decays, who will die, who will pass into dust...

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a...

The author says people are guilty of “wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

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...

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

One can be a pessimist in thought, but not in action.

Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others.

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that...

However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off, mainly in consequence of the antagonism between the ills of the body and...

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy,...

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.

Once I started trying to give positive reviews, though, I began to understand how much happiness I took from the joyous ones in my life—and how much effort it must take for them to be...

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner or later you have to ask yourself, or the person with you, ‘will...

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The divine right of kings may now be acknowledged as a fabrication, a falsified permit for prideful dementia and impulsive mayhem. The inalienable rights of certain people, on the other hand, seemingly remain current: somehow...

Sombres, dites-vous? Mais posez-vous la question docteur : pourquoi tous les grands philosophes sont-ils sombres? Demandez-vous qui sont les gens satisfaits, rassurés et éternellement joyeux! Laissez-moi vous donner la réponse : ce sont ceux qui...

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it.Becoming: an agony without an ending.The older I grow, the less I enjoy performing my little Hamlet....

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.

To see all pessimists as pessimists is to be a pessimist.

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

What scares me most is the pessimism of people.

Those who refuse to drink are always thirsty.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

How does knowing ‘things could be worse’ than what I already deem is awful make me feel any better? You mean I could sink even lower? Oh joy!

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance...

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.