“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
Idries Shah book Reflections
Source: Reflections
“Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.”
— Laurell K. Hamilton, book Blood Noir
Source: Blood Noir
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you." by Laurell K. Hamilton?
Laurell K. Hamilton261
Novelist 1963Related quotes
“To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.”
David H. Levy (1948) Canadian astronomer
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
“[…] You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) English author and academic
Page 352-353.
Stepping Westward (1965)
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Variant: Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890–1973) British writer
Quoted in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks By Karen Weekes, p. 41
Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984) Polish-American mathematician
Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 3, Travels Abroad, p. 55
T.S. Eliot book The Waste Land
Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 359 et seq.
Eliot's note: Stimulated by Shackleton's Antarctic expedition where the explorers at the extremity of their strength believed there was another who walked with them across South Georgia!
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Epilogue, p. 242
Out of My Life and Thought : An Autobiography (1933)
