Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

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

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

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The optimist says, ‘this is the best of all possible worlds.’ The pessimist considers that statement for a while and then says, ‘Yes, you are right.’

I'm not Pollyanna.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

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

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

Cheer up, things will get worse.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

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.

I'm not cynical.

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I am not a cynic.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.