“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken. — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
