Pessimist Quotes

I'm a pessimist.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

I'm a total pessimist.

— Thomas Middleditch

I'm a massive pessimist.

— Dan Smith

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

— Bill Maher

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

— Anonymous

Borrow money from a pessimist they dont expect it back .

— Anonymous

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He wont expect it back.

— SangFroid Stalker

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

— David Harley

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

— Charlie Munger

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

— Mira Grant

The best part of being a pessimist is that you either prove yourself right or you get pleasantly suprised!..

— Anonymous

An optimist makes the impossible possible. A pessimist makes the possible impossible.

— Anonymous

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

— James Branch Cabell

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

— William Arthur Ward

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“a pessimist finds difficulty at every opportunity but an optimist finds opportunity in every difficulty”

— Merc

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm always naturally a bit of a pessimist. And my mom is sorta the opposite.

— John Collins

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

— Leonard Cohen

“The optimist says, the cup is half full. The pessimist says, the cup is half empty. The child of God says; My…

— Daniella Whyte

No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your…

— Bob Iger

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…

— Paul Davies

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…

— Nicholas Hoult

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist…

— Anonymous

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one…

— Victor Cherbuliez

“If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull.…

— William Lyon Phelps

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Turbulence is a condition that we all experience during a flight when the plane is bouncing around by competing air currents. By…

— Philip Kotler

Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned…

— Salman Rushdie

The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people…

— Josh Fox

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at…

— Bernard Malamud

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also…

— Anonymous

Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't…

— Ben Rector

“To some of us, these are the good old days in the making.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Max Lerner

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

— Mark Twain

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

— Elsa Triolet

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

— Nate Lowman