The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience"."What's pessimism?" I said."Religion without God.

I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.