Pessimist Quotes

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

I've always been a bit of a pessimist in regard to mankind.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."