Quotes about Pessimist

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. Votes: 5

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive. Votes: 3

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. Votes: 3

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Votes: 3

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. Votes: 3

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill. Votes: 3

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 3

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. Votes: 3

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. Votes: 3

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. Votes: 3

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome. Votes: 3

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing. Votes: 3

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars. Votes: 2

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. Votes: 2

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train. Votes: 2

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. Votes: 2

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. Votes: 2

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. Votes: 2

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. Votes: 2

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Votes: 2

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation. Votes: 2

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Votes: 2

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. Votes: 2

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. Votes: 2

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. Votes: 1

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. Votes: 1

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 1

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am. Votes: 1

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Votes: 1

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. Votes: 1

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective. Votes: 1

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? Votes: 1

If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do. Votes: 1

I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments... Always on to the next and never in the moment. Votes: 1

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.' Votes: 1

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. Votes: 1

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist. Votes: 0

I've never met a successful pessimist. Votes: 0

The optimist is a pessimist with a plan Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting. Votes: 0

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. Votes: 0

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience. Votes: 0

No one knows enough to be a pessimist Votes: 0

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive. Votes: 0

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist. Votes: 0

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Votes: 0

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. Votes: 0

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information. Votes: 0

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. Votes: 0

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. Votes: 0

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Votes: 0

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. Votes: 0

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist. Votes: 0

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. Votes: 0

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air. Votes: 0

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool. Votes: 0

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole. Votes: 0

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist. Votes: 0

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. Votes: 0

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. Votes: 0

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist. Votes: 0

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts. Votes: 0

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am. Votes: 0

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege. Votes: 0

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism. Votes: 0

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. Votes: 0

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up. Votes: 0

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. Votes: 0

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. Votes: 0

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist. Votes: 0

I've always been a bit of a pessimist in regard to mankind. Votes: 0

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. Votes: 0

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. Votes: 0

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned. Votes: 0

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. Votes: 0

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. Votes: 0

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. Votes: 0

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. Votes: 0

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. Votes: 0

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. Votes: 0

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window. Votes: 0

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Votes: 0

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes. Votes: 0

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. Votes: 0

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. Votes: 0

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow. Votes: 0

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope. Votes: 0

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way. Votes: 0

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. Votes: 0

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. Votes: 0

The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist. Votes: 0

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? Votes: 0

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 0

A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness. Votes: 0

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin. Votes: 0

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable. Votes: 0

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist. Votes: 0

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right Votes: 0

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. Votes: 0

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason. Votes: 0

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. Votes: 0

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films. Votes: 0

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon. Votes: 0

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good. Votes: 0

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches. Votes: 0

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. Votes: 0

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. Votes: 0

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious. Votes: 0

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! Votes: 0

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist. Votes: 0

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism Votes: 0

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. Votes: 0

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Votes: 0

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. Votes: 0

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. Votes: 0

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Votes: 0

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. Votes: 0

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. Votes: 0

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. Votes: 0

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. Votes: 0

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. Votes: 0

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move! Votes: 0

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! Votes: 0

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. Votes: 0

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit. Votes: 0

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem. Votes: 0

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' Votes: 0

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer. Votes: 0

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it. Votes: 0

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself. Votes: 0

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out. Votes: 0

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life Votes: 0

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full. Votes: 0

He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way. Votes: 0

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole. Votes: 0

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. Votes: 0

A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.' Votes: 0

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world. Votes: 0

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress. Votes: 0

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress. Votes: 0

People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. Votes: 0

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist. Votes: 0