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
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What look?', I would ask. That look that I owe you something. That I've wronged you in some way. A pessimist. A… — Weike Wang 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
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is… — Yves Behar 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 wrote to my son. ‘Be a pessimist,’ I advised Joseph on his first birthday on 21 November. ‘It is the safest,… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To describe someone as a pessimist is to issue an insult, whereas to be labelled an optimist is to get a pat… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I didn't like talking about my music in school, so I was trying to keep it very undercover. I don't know if… — Griff Copy Share Image
I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now… — Mark Martin Copy Share Image
I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing,… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
