Pessimist Quotes · Page 10

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

— Amy Waldman

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

— Elias Canetti

Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back

— Nateman

I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

— James Lovelock

“I may be the optimist and you may be the Pessimist but you can never put a puzzle together with the two…

— Austin V. Songer

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

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

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

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the…

— Jules Breton

Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't…

— Yvon Chouinard

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the…

— James Buchan

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

— Harry S. Truman

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about…

— Zig Ziglar

“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a…

— Anna Funder

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

“I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know…

— Oscar Wilde

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything…

— Martin Seligman

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

“At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard…

— G.K. Chesterton

Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad;…

— E. Urner Goodman

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

— Tyler Cowen

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.

— Ralph Waldo Trine

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

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

— Idries Shah

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

— Winston Churchill

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

— Jan Smuts

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

— Katharine Whitehorn

We all deal with our inner pessimist. We just try to find as much positivity as we can find.

— Eddy Alvarez

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

— Ellen Ullman

In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

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

— Antonio Gramsci

“Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

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