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“It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.”

Long Helping Seeing Stupid Delusion Sober Pessimistic

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.”

Pain Greater Limits Pessimistic

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .”

Men Needs Humans Kind Hard Given Simple Mistake Achieve Conditions Satisfaction Observation Human Life Boredom Compounds Pessimistic Painless

Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.”

Issues Proportion Pessimistic

Author:Stuart Hughes

“When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.”

Should Happens Wonder Miracle Saving Pessimistic Saving Up

Author:Marshall Brickman

“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.”

Ifs Knows Trying Natural Focus Institutions Corruption Threatened Pessimistic

Author:Paul Hawken

“An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner.”

World Dream Challenges Creative Optimism Inspired Guides Uplifting Pessimistic Jaded

Author:Alberto Villoldo

“The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.”

World Giving Care Healing Worry This World Findings Capacity Optimistic Hopeful Hopeless Our World Solidarity Who Cares Healed Ingenuity Pessimistic Showing Up Capacity To Love

Author:Joanna Macy

“The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.”

People Feels Self Shows Research Negative Critical Mood Combination Toxic Powerless Pessimistic Biased Rumination Distraught

Book:The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Source: The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

“You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.”

Persons Film Chance Ability Risk Talent Luck Optimistic Mixtures Take A Chance Pessimistic Being Optimistic Talents And Abilities

Author:Nathan Crowley

“In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.”

Ifs Believe Inspiration Happens Capacity Midst Cynical Unseen Skeptical Pessimistic Slender

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.”

Dark Truth Is Telling The Truth Prisoner Pessimistic

Author:Cornel West

“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.”

Source: C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

“If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.”

Ifs Opinion Fantasy Pessimistic

Author:David Eddings

“Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.”

People Thinking Blood Strange Depressing Emphasis Pessimistic Overcrowding

Author:H. R. Giger

“Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.”

Men Views Enemy Influence Resources Pessimistic

Author:Livy

“Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.”

Attitude Team Eternal Fellows Presses Coaches Optimist Pessimistic Schizophrenic

Author:Jim Valvano

“The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.”

Looks Sides Attitude Worried Too Short No Point Brighter Pessimistic Life's Too Short Brighter Side

Author:Prince William

“Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.”

Mind Winning Sound Term Losing Insanity Pessimistic Craziness Losing My Mind

Author:Dane Cook

“Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving”

Giving Home Spirit Hate Interest Millions Too Much Hatred Brotherhood Cynicism Pessimist Cheerfulness Pessimistic Grasping

Author:E. Urner Goodman

“I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.”

People World Believe Force I Believe Lines Powerful Development Innovation Most Powerful Pessimistic Straight Lines Trajectory

Author:Bill Gates

“My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.”

Said Parent Optimistic Things To Do Pessimistic Marrying

Author:Olivia Wilde

“I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.”

Ifs Ends Seems Attitude Comfortable Worried Permanent Pessimistic

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“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.”

Years Has Beens Said Might Literature Force Acting Behinds Company Cases Years Ago Twenties Driving These Days Ceo Might Have Been No Hope Pessimistic Cleanliness Driving Force

Author:Jared Diamond

“The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.”

Play Sports Complaining Coaches Optimistic Realistic Pessimistic

Author:John Kessel

“The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.”

Feels Moments Action Political Felt Term Situation Environment Painting Historical Hopeful Gestures Pessimistic Political Environment

Author:Julie Mehretu

“I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.”

Persons Half Empty Glasses Pessimistic Half Empty

Author:Nigahiga

“I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'”

Knows Persons Half Seeing One Thing Return Photography Photographer Just One Pessimistic Here I Am

Author:Emmet Gowin

“I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.”

Thinking Should International Debate Optimistic Discussion Pessimist Pessimistic Snowden

Author:Adam Savage

“There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.”

Years May Born Birth Pessimistic

Book:Harbours of Memory

Source: Harbours of Memory

“The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.”

Men Humans Human Beings Views Race Technology Arms Limits Assuming Defense Optimistic Ingenuity Pessimistic Arms Race

Book:Polemics and prophecies, 1967-1970

Source: Polemics and prophecies, 1967-1970

“I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.”

America Summer Pessimistic Dumbing Down

Author:Elmer Bernstein

“I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.”

People Way Pessimistic

Author:Claude Chabrol

“I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.”

Ifs Trying Work Out Optimistic Depressing Optimist Pessimist Pessimistic

Author:Nicholas Hoult

“American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.”

Actors White Dare British Teeth Pessimistic Indestructible White Teeth

Author:Max Irons

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