Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
ATTRIBUTION:
Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778), French philosopher, author. Candide, in Candide, or Optimism (Candide, ou l’Optimisme) (1759), ch. 19, p. 222, Paris, Garnier Flammarion (1966).
