Let me declare expressly that in the days when mankind was not yet ashamed of its cruelty, life on earth was more cheerful than it is now that pessimists exist.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed - it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Some people like to remain in 'Nirasha'. And they are not satisfied till they have spoken about it to other people.