Quotes about Optimism

Sufficient for to-morrow is the evil thereof; but I hope before the day is past to have the upper hand at last.

optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.

He who is without hope is also without fear. - On Psychology

There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy….So long as we persist in this inborn error, and indeed even become confirmed in it through optimistic dogmas, the world seems to us full of contradictions.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

While there's life, there is hope.

In Britain, people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.

people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.

You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.

If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

Whether your glass is half full or half empty, hope can fill it up.

Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.