Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Pessimism

• We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Past, Optimism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

• The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blow, Optimism, Shadow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Harvard University Press

• The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optimism, Soul, Limits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.147, Penguin

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