The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. – Heywood Broun
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist –a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist –only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. – E. M. Cioran
I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. Thats the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed. – T-Bone Burnett
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I dont think my mother had that opportunity to change. – Jeanne Moreau
