Glenn Gould Quotes

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Not every cloud has a silver lining.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I'm such a fan of the glass being half full.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

Keep things in perspective. It's never quite as good as it seems, it's never quite as bad as it seems.

I'm very much a glass-is-half-full guy.

I'm annoyingly optimistic.

I am a hopeless optimist.

I'm not Pollyanna.

I try to look at things in a positive light, but not everything ends up turning out positive or perfect.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

My worst expectations never happened.

I've never seen a low point. I like to believe that they don't exist.