Pessimist Quotes

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

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

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

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

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

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

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

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.