Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Robert Hewison

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.
Dick Thornburgh

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
Brian May

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
Billy Connolly

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
Margery Allingham

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ellis

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
Louise Brown

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen Hawking

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
Harry Stack Sullivan

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
Edward Steichen

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.
Jill Clayburgh

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

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Virginia Woolf

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
Leni Riefenstahl