I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“By another angle, Hardy is pessimist about gods and optimist about the man. Bhutta” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar Copy Share Image
“Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be. — James Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I am, by nature, not optimistic: my fellow drag queens would probably describe me as a pessimist. — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Winston Churchill once quipped, “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” He” — William Ury Copy Share Image
A Pessimist Sees Only The Dark Side Of The Clouds And Mopes. A Philosopher Sees Both Sides And Shrugs.. But An Optimist… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
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… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Thomas grunted. "Might have been smarter for them to have left you alone. Now you know something." I made an exasperated sound.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
Yoga is not pessimistic. You may be optimistic or pessimistic; yoga is neither. If you are pessimistic, you cannot enter on the… — OSHO Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good. — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
“The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way. — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.” — Ben Franklin Copy Share Image
“The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image
