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“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is.

An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.

An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices.

When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.

Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”
― William Golding

“Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.”
― Woody Allen

“The good thing about being a pessimist is that I'm either always right, or pleasantly surprised.”
― Robin Ayers

“What I want to say is, you are unhappy because you think too much. I strongly believe that someone who is truly mature can never be happy. It takes a lot of effort to turn into a pessimist. Lots of books, and of course, a lot of contemplation. A thinking man, therefore, can never be cheerful. The overly developed faculty of thinking comes at a price―happiness. So, try not to overthink. Try not to use your mind unduly. Especially when it’s not needed. And when using it won’t serve any purpose.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because it is depressing, and depressed people live shorter lives. Optimists and believers are happier and healthier in their unreal worlds.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

“I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography

“Some of those who have killed themselves would readily kill themselves again if they could.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Pessimism is the result of too much culture and introversion.”
― Charles Godfrey Leland, Aradia: Gospel of the Witches

“I know that human life is horrible. I know that it is utterly unlike art. I have no religion except my own task of being. Conventional religions are dream stuff. Always a world of fear and horror lies but a millimetre away. Any man, even the greatest, can be broken in a moment and has no refuge. Any theory which denies this is a lie.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If it didn’t go all that well today, tomorrow is the opportunity that I have to do what I did today without doing it the way that I did it today.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The problem with being prepared for the worst, is that the best things in life become easier to ignore...”
― Cynthia E Olmedo

“The only thing I’m optimistic about is the future of pessimism.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I wasn't a glass half empty, half full kind of guy. No, I believed that the glass was completely full. Full of piss.”
― Grace McGinty, Manix

“Life is what we make of it. A pessimistic person is constantly preparing for the worse possible scenario instead of enjoying what life proffers.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A person who accepts that they are condemned to death and who holds no belief in a god created afterlife is a realist.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“In some cases, the mind doesn’t share the body’s desire to continue living.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To be a pessimist is to see everything tragically, an attitude that's both excessive and uncomfortable. While it's true that we ascribe no value to the work we produce and that we produce it to keep busy, we're not like the prisoner who busily weaves straw to forget about his fate; we're like the girl who embroiders pillows for no other reason than to keep busy.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“Optimists may have fugitive doubts about the basic desirability of existence, but pessimists never doubt that existence is basically undesirable. If you interrupted them in the middle of an ecstatic moment, which pessimists do have, and asked if existence is basically undesirable, they would reply “Of course�� before returning to their ecstasy.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“Some people usually make lemons, when life gives them lemonade.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Optimists do more with less while pessimists do less with more.”
― F. Allen Davis, Continuous Improvement By Improving Continuously (CIBIC): Addressing the Human Factors During the Pursuit of Process Excellence

“There are those who say that it can’t be done, and then there are those who say that it will be done. If I listen to the former, it will never be done. But if I listen to the latter, I’ll find that it’s already done before it’s done.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What is deemed a nightmare by one person another deems an adventure.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you have negativity in the mind, don't expect positivity in the life.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“To all Realist, Optimist and Pessimist Society; While you were arguing about my attitude, personality and character, I have achieved a tagline of youngest successful entrepreneur with 2 Million yearly turn over. What you have achieved?”
― Faheem Uddin Syed

“Pervasiveness. Unlike pessimists who let their doubts and troubles affect every area of their lives, optimists are able to put their problems in a “box�� and not let them distract them.”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“The optimist doesn’t fear the height of the cliff. Rather, they’re looking forward to the walk across the bridge.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“هذا الشر الذي لا يصد عن اللهو. يقاتل ويقتل ويحظى بكل الاحترام. يقسو ويستبد هازئًا بالعواقب وله ضحكة تجلجل فتملأ الآفاق. له لذة في العبث بالضعفاء ويسمر في المآثم ويغني فوق شواهد القبور. الموت يدنو مني وهو لايزال يضحك ساخرًا. القتيل في التراب والقاتل ضائع وفي كوخي بكاء على الإثنين. ضحكة الطفولة في الحديقة استحالت مع الأيام عبوسة غارقة في الدمع. وفي الداخل بقية جسدي يتوجع. لماذا هذا العناء كله وأين صفو الأحلام أين؟”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا