What did Ian Mcewan mean by: One has to have the courage of one’s pessimism. - Ian Mcewan Author · England Copy
+ i’m going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad. Feraz Zeid, September 1, 2023December 26, 2023, Ian Mcewan, Mad, 0 - Ian Mcewan Author · England
+ It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ian Mcewan, Children, Left Alone, 0 - Ian Mcewan Author · England
+ Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy. Feraz Zeid, September 28, 2023December 26, 2023, Ian Mcewan, Erotic, Joy, Self, 0 - Ian Mcewan Author · England
+ This is how the entire course of a life can be changed – by doing nothing. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ian Mcewan, Changed, Courses, Doing Nothing, 0 - Ian Mcewan Author · England
+ A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ian Mcewan, Novelists, vulnerable, 0 - Ian Mcewan Author · England
+ Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties. Feraz Zeid, October 11, 2023December 26, 2023, Ian Mcewan, Calm, Existential, 0 - Ian Mcewan Author · England
+ And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ian Mcewan, Feet, 0 - Ian Mcewan Author · England
+ A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ian Mcewan, Gestures, Stories, 0 - Ian Mcewan Author · England
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don’t see any pessimism among them. - Freeman Dyson Physicist · United Kingdom
When a country is strong… it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers. - Michel Houellebecq Writer · France
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism. - Miguel de Unamuno Philosopher and writer · Spain
If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh. - Herman Melville Author · USA
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. - David Myers Professor
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. - John Ortberg Pastor · USA
