People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon. — James Garner Copy Share Image
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me. — Ben Feldman 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
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Let's say there was no terrorism whatsoever and we were all very nice to one another and we were all kind, we… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“Our notion of an optimist is a man who, knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
