Pessimist Quotes · Page 6

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

— Jon Richardson

“By another angle, Hardy is pessimist about gods and optimist about the man. Bhutta”

— Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar

“My name is Hope Happy, and I am a pessimist.”

— Jarod Kintz

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

— Albert Einstein

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

— George Meyer

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

— Nick Bostrom

“To see all pessimists as pessimists is to be a pessimist.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Charles Martin

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

“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 an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.…

— Bill Ayers

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Anonymous

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

It is better to be an optimist (a positive-minded person) because being a pessimist will get you nowhere.

— Melchor Lim

Nothing worries the pessimist like the optimist who says there is nothing to worry about.

— Vikrant Parsai

I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to…

— Martin Rees

“tell them that both optimists and pessimists die in the end, but the optimist leads a hopeful and happy existence while the…

— Shimon Peres

“Our notion of an optimist is a man who, knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will…

— Anonymous

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

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad…

— Peter Ustinov

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on,…

— Edgar Saltus

If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think…

— Patch Adams

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

— William Beveridge

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

— Don Marquis

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

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

— Eric Sevareid

“The pessimist says, ‘It can’t get any worse!’ And the optimist replies, ‘Oh yes it can!”

— Madeleine Urban

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

— Diablo Cody

I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought…

— Cate Blanchett

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

— Shimon Peres

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

— Voltaire

“more cruelly: he feared her faith because, as a fully paid-up pessimist, he knew he had none.”

— John le Carré

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

— Anonymous

“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being…

— Israelmore Ayivor