Pessimist Quotes · Page 4

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

— Idries Shah

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

— Sean O Faolain

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

— Laurence J. Peter

I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

— Tyler Cowen

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

— Oscar Wilde

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

— Oscar Wilde

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

— Mark Twain

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

“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 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

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than…

— Matt Lauer

“He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go…

— Adam P. Knave

“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

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

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

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

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time…

— Daniel Goleman

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly…

— Adam Savage

Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are…

— William DeWitt Hyde

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists,…

— Rowan Williams

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of…

— Helen Keller

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,…

— Jane Rule

“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither…

— Vera Nazarian

Every generation thinks things are happening that have never happened before. Every generation of people thinks we're in the last days. Every…

— Rush Limbaugh

Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish…

— Dean Karnazes

“Happy the creators of pessimistic systems! Besides taking refuge in the fact of having made something, they can exult in their explanation…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Harvey Mackay

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist

— Mark Twain

I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

— Ben Feldman

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

— Mike Royko

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

— Antonio Gramsci

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Peter Benchley