“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”
Mark Twain
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”
Antonio Gramsci
“Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.”
“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little”
“Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; 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
“Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.”
William Arthur Ward