Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
“Bah, cynics," said Dr. Meescham. "Cynics are people who are afraid to believe.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I do everything with a purpose, and I don't really pay attention to the negativity. — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
If you think of failure in your mind, you are one step farther away from success. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
You do not suffer from your beliefs. You suffer from your disbeliefs. If you have no hope inside of you, it's not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist.… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not a belief that things will get worse, either for the individual or the species—it is more profoundly a rejection… — Jacob Graham Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t this make you sad, Ferdinand?” He shrugged his shoulders. “Cynical, if you like. One is sad when one thinks about life—cynical… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Most people desperately desire to believe that they are part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally am content to see everything in… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
The thoughts people create about us will always reach us. Any wrong karma, invites negative energy from people towards us. If people… — Dr BK Satyanarayan Copy Share Image
“Cynics have observed that those who have benefited the most from “progress”—the citizens of the First World—are the people most inclined to… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the greatest strike against philosophical pessimism is that its only theme is human suffering. This is the last item on the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know. — K'naan Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to bring a child into this world for its own sake.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the… — Jennifer Bosworth Copy Share Image
“The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned. — Allu Arjun Copy Share Image
“When I was born, the doctor slit my throat to see if I could talk.” — Sean Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When negativity strikes you, throw it back as you would a ball and let the bully live in misery.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the negativity from the past can be erased in the moment with a single positive action. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
