When One Becomes Pessimistic Quotes & Sayings

Love, it's such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb. — Stuart Dybek

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman. — Joseph Addison

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each. — Christopher Rice

Karma is not something pessimistic. If you think of karma as something wrong, you are seeing karma only according to what happened in the past. You look at the past and karma becomes a monster. So you should also look at karma in the present and future. Then karma becomes something very wide and really alive. Through karma you can understand what your destiny is. Destiny itself has no solid form; it's something you can create. You can create your life. That is why we study karma. — Dainin Katagiri

Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it. — Anthony Liccione

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion. — Jerry Saltz

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. — Walter Savage Landor

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. — Agnes De Mille

Let's learn to live!
Then there is no death,
save the transition, when desired.
Many live who have never died as yet. — Edgar Cayce

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. — James Alison