When the pessimistis popular it must always be not because he shows all things to be bad, but because he shows some things to be good.
But the optimist of to-day seems obliged to prove that gout and unrequited love make him dance with joy, and the pessimist of to-day to prove that sunshine and a good supper convulse him with inconsolable anguish.
He deliberately stoked himself from his snuff mull before replying: "Optimist nor pessimist am I, eechie nor ochie.
First, he might conceivably go on to his dying day as a bitter pessimist at war with life.
Fame, which had shunned him for thirty years, came to him in extraordinary measure during the last part of his life: another exact parallel between him and the great pessimist Schopenhauer.
The reason why a man is a pessimist or an optimist is not because he wants to be, but because he was born so; and this man [a minister of the Gospel who was going to explain life to him] is going to tell me why he isn't a pessimist.
He made a birthday aphorism on the subject: "The man who is a pessimist before he is forty-eight knows too much; the man who is an optimist after he is forty-eight knows too little.
Mark Twain was not a pessimist in his heart, but only by premeditation.
He was never more than a pessimist in theory at any time.
The papers called me a pessimist for writing that story.
There could be no more pessimist conception of man than this one which devotes him to the Devil from the instant of his birth, and pictures him as struggling against himself until the instant of his death.
Surely, the most hopeless pessimist must admit that these are signs of a future when war shall be regarded as the most foolish and most criminal blot upon man’s record?
The pessimist theory, however, that life itself is an evil, that it would have been better for every one if he had never been born--that was radically refuted by our own lot.
The pessimist says he condemns life because it results in more pain than pleasure.
The Pessimist visited the field more assiduously than ever; Merry looked despondent; only Hope kept up her courage.
The Pessimist withdrew the stick which held the staple and threw open the unshapely door.
We shall have them in time," said the Pessimist complacently, looking abroad upon the straight rows of tiny trees almost hidden by the growing crops.
Dryden and old man Spafford helped Hope and Merry with the packing, and the Pessimist flourished the marking-brush with the greatest dexterity.
Pessimist as we passed by them one evening on our way up from the little wharf where we had left our sailboat.
Both, apparently," answered the Pessimist in the same tone, "for here they come.
I rather suspect that there is our most profitable crop," said the Invalid as we seated ourselves upon the piazza which the Pessimist had lately built before the house.
The Pessimist was without a hat, and his countenance bore the marks of many a fray with the lower branches of the trees.
I warn you I wash my hands of the whole concern," the Pessimist had said.
The Pessimist thrust his hands into his pockets and gave utterance to a long, low whistle.
The Pessimist left off laughing at the idea of farming, and spent a great deal of time walking about the place, looking into things in general.
Hans was industrious, frugal and thrifty, and was making money, until one unfortunate day he turned pessimist and began to look on the hole in the doughnut.
The pessimist replied: "Yes, very good place, but somehow or other this halo don't fit my head exactly.
Sickly and sullied your amorous strains, Pessimist praters of fancied pains,-- What do you think of this Ninety Year?
Look at him, taintless of fraud or fear, Alive and manful at Ninety Year, And blush at your pitiful pessimist whine!
Yet we never speculate as to whether the conversationalpessimist will strengthen or disorganize society; for we are convinced that theories do not matter.
Examples are scarcely needed to show that, whatever else we think of as affecting practical affairs, we do not think it matters whether a man is a pessimist or an optimist, a Cartesian or a Hegelian, a materialist or a spiritualist.
Pessimists are born not made; optimists are born not made; but no man is born eitherpessimist wholly or optimist wholly, perhaps; he is pessimistic along certain lines and optimistic along certain others.
It's the home of the only pessimist I have found in St. Marys.
The rain continued during Sunday and Myron was restless and inclined to be as much of a pessimist as the head coach.
And as our mistakenpessimist listens, what then becomes of his theory that science and philosophy have killed the poet in mankind?
If ever there was an age when it looked to the pessimist as if science and philosophy would change the aspect of nature and the heart of man, it was that eighteenth century.
I hold Thomson, therefore, pessimist though he was, to have been, by virtue of his indomitable courage and love of truth, one of the inspired voices of democracy.
And for himself, she thought with a craving, remorseful tenderness of that pessimist temper of his towards his own work and function that she knew so well.
A pessimist is one who, of two evils, chooses them both.
