Pessimist Quotes

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

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

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

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

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

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of 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.

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

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

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

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

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

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.