James Branch Cabell Quotes

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

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

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Well, I'm an optimist.

I am not a cynic.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

I am an optimist.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

There is no sadder thing than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

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

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

I just think there is so much irrational pessimism in the world.

In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

I don't believe in pessimism.

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?

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.