If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical. — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
My entire life I've proved that I'm able to overcome people's negativity toward me. — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine. Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.” — Jonathan Heatt Copy Share Image
Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective. — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman. — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image
I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
I'm not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don't understand, God has a hand in things and it… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
“I tend to be a real optimist because I just find that pessimism is an indulgence and despair is kind of an… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence,… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. — Anonymous 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
“The psychologists have a term — emotional contagion. When other people are acting a certain way around you, you tend to absorb… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men,… — Leon Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Like many other people, I grew up with so much adversity and negativity, it would have been easy to get overwhelmed and… — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
I have experienced great sadness cause I didn't know. I wondered why does one day my mind decides to go against me… — Edward Shaylitsa Copy Share Image
In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
