It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You never want to limit your potential satisfaction, growth, and long-term happiness by always having to focus on the negativity from others… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself, to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids.… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life, when bad things happen to us, or things aren't going our way, or we're faced with a challenge or… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
“Neo-Spenglerians who are attuned to the racial view of history (call them "racists" for convenience) hold that the "final" phase of a… — Willis Carto Copy Share Image
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
If the glass is half empty, it can always be filled, and if the glass is half full, it can always be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
