Pessimist Quotes · Page 9

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

— Idries Shah

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Failure yesterday, failure today, failure tomorrow, at least I am a success at being a pessimist.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

— Nathan Englander

“I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own…

— Alice Walker

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't…

— Anonymous

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

— Harry S Truman

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive…

— Jane Rule

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and…

— Helen Caldicott

“Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.”

— C. JoyBell C

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

— Domhnall Gleeson

“I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know…

— Oscar Wilde

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best -…

— Bill Bryson

Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the…

— Matthieu Ricard

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in…

— Anthony Burgess

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in…

— Mary McCarthy

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't…

— Karl Pilkington

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both…

— Ralph Waldo Trine

If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden…

— Deborah Ellis

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living…

— Timothy Keller

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

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

— Eric Sevareid

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

— Don Marquis

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

— James Branch Cabell

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Craig Venter

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

— Eugene O'Neill

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

— George Meyer

“Pessimist, are you?” “I’m a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.”

— Charles Martin

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

— James Garner

Life is a gift for an optimist, punishment for a pessimist, and an opportunity for an opportunist

— 5h45hvut

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

— Nick Bostrom

I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken.

— Jon Richardson

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Jim Rohn