“Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.”
“Pessimism has its own secret Share of optimism in it too.”
“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.”
“Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience"."What's pessimism?" I said."Religion without God.”
“It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.”