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)

    “I’ve often wondered why she laughed
    On thinking why I wondered so;
    It seemed such waste that long white hands
    Should touch my hands and let them go.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)