Exaggeration Quote by Steve Toltz

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

— Mike Judge

I do think there's something funny about being over-optimistic.

— Sam Richardson

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly…

— Alain de Botton

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

— Christina Stead

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

— Robert Mueller

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

— David Rakoff

The optimist laughs to forget. The pessimist forgets to laugh.

— Anonymous

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

— Jim Leach

“You may find that you have been telling yourself that practicing optimism is a risk, as though, somehow, a positive attitude will invite disaster…

— Philippa Perry

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

— William Arthur Ward

I love optimism but most times reality isn't all optimistic and sometimes we have to say things the way they appear to us.

— Terry Mark

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

— Alan Cohen