Thomas Ligotti Quotes

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Liraz. "Yes," he conceded. "Usually worse." Hazael cut in. "My sister, Sunshine, and my brother, Light. You two should rally the ranks. You'll have us killing ourselves by morning.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

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

I see the glass half full...but of poison.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down, you're going to have negative results. But if you feel like you're going to make it through and you have positive thoughts, you have a much better chance to survive and be successful and happy.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I can't imagine a world without hope.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.