
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
– Cyrano de Bergerac
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- When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. – GK Chesterton
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- Many beautiful dreams die prematurely because the dreamers don’t have enough fuel to drive through the rocky roads and the patience to wait. – Bernard Kelvin Clive
- Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism. – Steven Magee
- The kind of death you should mourn over is the one that happen when you abort your potentials prematurely! Life without purpose is a tragedy! – Israelmore Ayivor
- A great tragedy is occurring. Millions of people are dying prematurely. These people are killing themselves and they don’t even know it. – Tim Loy
- A great tragedy is occurring. Millions of people are dying prematurely. These people are killing themselves and they don’t even know it. – Tim Loy
- It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely – Robert Aickman
- Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it. – Bono
- I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know. – Leila Sales
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently – Jeanette Winterson
- An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move. – Albert Einstein
- Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet. – Mohsin Hamid
- If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty. – Chris Rock
- A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story – Enrique de Hriz
- Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn’t exist. – George Orwell
- Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. – James E Faust
- God gave us His Word so we could know truth. His truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. – Patty Houser
- If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. – Antonio Gramsci
- The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone’s life. – Abhijit Naskar
- An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit. – Debasish Mridha
- A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness. – Debasish Mridha
- I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. – William Golding
- Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning. – Marty Rubin
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- I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I’m a solver – Mr Pessimist
- One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action. – Marty Rubin
- Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. – Helen Keller
- For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool. – Debasish Mridha
- A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. – Scott Edward Shjefte
- So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I’d always thought of myself as a pessimist. – Jennifer Bosworth
- No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit – Helen Keller
- I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless. – Barbara T Cerny
- They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE) – Plato
- Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth. – Jane Yolen
