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“What a beautiful day to go to hell”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).”
― Claire

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

“If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.”
― Robert Asprin, editor

“I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.”
― Tamar Myers, As the World Churns

“One can only tolerate the absolute idiocy of Man for so long before bringing out the bat.”
― Dean Hale

“If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.”
― Stuart Hill, The Cry of the Icemark

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

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

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

“There is no such thing as magic," she told me. "You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it's never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only fall”
― Melissa DeCarlo, The Art of Crash Landing

“That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
― Rex Stout

“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

“The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The chemist sees the glass completely full, half in liquid state and half in gaseous, both of which is probably poisonous.”
― Weike Wang, Chemistry