Pessimist Quotations

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

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

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

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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

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

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

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

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

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

People don't like to follow pessimists.

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 am a provocative pessimist and my point of departure is that politicians and decision-makers must be made to give serious consideration to the consequences of development and make a real effort to change the direction of certain trends. In that case, we may be able to avoid a truly disastrous outcome for ourselves.

OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief."Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God."No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them.""The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something --the mortality of the optimist.

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

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

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

The pessimist borrows trouble? the optimist lends encouragement.

The optimist would say we're in the early stage of a broad rally, the pessimist would say this is a dead-cat bounce and markets are going to head lower as oil heads toward $50 a barrel.

A pessimist only sees 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.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties

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'm probably the biggest pessimist in the world.

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer.

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

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

I could have been a pessimist - I went for that same job. My kid gets to run down the ramp ... and Brian's done a good job. I didn't see this type of success coming, I really didn't.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

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

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

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

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

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

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.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

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

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

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

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

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

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

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

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

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

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

Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

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

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

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little

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

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

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

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.