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Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just…

— Colin Wilson

“Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers were often…

— Laura Lippman

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

— Grace Bridges

“tell them that both optimists and pessimists die in the end, but the optimist leads a hopeful and happy existence while the pessimist spends…

— Shimon Peres

“Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.”

— William T. Vollmann

“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

— Antonio Gramsci

“Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.”

— Iimani David

“A cynic is just a pessimist trying to be optomistic.”

— John Walter Scott

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

— Doris Lessing

“People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.”

— Colette

“Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self- fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.”

— Evelin Lindner

“One is sad when one thinks about life—cynical when one -sees what people make of it.”

— Erich Maria Remarque