Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.
|
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
|
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
|
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
|
At the end of the day, both optimists and pessimists are always right.
|
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.
|
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
|
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
|
Always borrow money from pessimists; they'll never expect it back
|
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
|
Pessimists are in a winwin situation, whatever happens they are either always right or pleasantly suprised.
|
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
|
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right.
|
The problem with pessimists is that they're right too much.
|