Pessimist Quotes

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.