“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”
Mark Twain
“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.”
Albert Schweitzer
“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little”
“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.”
Janeane Garofalo
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose”
Kahlil Gibran
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power”
William James
