I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Cynicism doesn't have its way in series finales. My emotional desire when I watch a series come to an end is to… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go… — Adam P. Knave Copy Share Image
“The negativity of otherness or foreignness is de-interiorized and transformed into the positivity of communicable and consumable difference: ‘diversity’.” — Byung-Chul Han Copy Share Image
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I've always known negativity comes with the territory and I can accept criticism about my performances, but it is the personal attacks… — Alex Greenwood Copy Share Image
“We are not optimists because we can predict a bright and beautiful future, but we're not pessimists either, because the future is… — William Ayers Copy Share Image
People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The good part about being a pessimist is, when something bad happens, you're never really devastated by it. And when something good… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
Nothing worries the pessimist like the optimist who says there is nothing to worry about. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Pessimism is easy. We all can do it. We don't need to read books on how to be pessimists. We don't need… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Anything worth having doesn’t come easy' is a perception of negativity perpetuated by misery looking for company. Accept nothing but the opposite… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Be aware of negativity but do not let it take root in the sinews of your creative spirit.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image
There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that. — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
