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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Author: Enoch Arnold Bennett
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.The pessimist fears it is true.
Author: Robert Oppenheimer
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A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Author: Roberto Rossellini
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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.
Author: James Baldwin
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No good deed goes unpunished.
Author: Clare Boothe Luce
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If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
Author: Damien Cannon
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Pessimism never won any battle.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half- empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
Author: Janeane Garofalo
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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
Author: Thomas Hardy
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If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.
Author: Robert Lowell
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Author: Don Marquis
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In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Author: Daniel Readon
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
Author: Agnes Repplier
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Author: Bernard De Voto
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Author: Edmond Rostand
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A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
Author: Anonymous
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Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
Author: Philander Johnson
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