Wishful Thinking - Reverse Wishful Thinking

Reverse Wishful Thinking

Reverse wishful thinking is where someone assumes that because something is bad it is likely to happen. This may be to fulfill a prediction made by the speaker or because they are generally pessimistic.

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Famous quotes containing the words reverse and/or thinking:

    “We came home from the ridotto so late, or rather so early, that it was not possible for me to write. Indeed we did not go ... till past eleven o’clock: but nobody does. A terrible reverse of the order of nature! We sleep with the sun, and wake with the moon.”
    —Frances Burney (1752–1840)

    “O love is the crooked thing,
    There is nobody wise enough
    To find out all that is in it,
    For he would be thinking of love
    Till the stars had run away”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)