Ralph Marston Quotes

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

I'm always prepared for the worst.

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

Worrying is imagining that which you don't want.

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed, vampire stalker

‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

A lot of stuff is dark in a way, but unless you're really looking at a situation for what it actually is, it's hard to be hopeful - or meaningless to be hopeful about it unless it's actually based in a real possibility.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.