Pessimist Quotes · Page 7

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

— Charles Martin

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

— James Garner

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

— Craig Venter

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

— George Meyer

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

— Eugene O'Neill

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

— Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar

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

— Albert Einstein

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

— Christopher Nolan

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one…

— Victor Cherbuliez

“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

No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your…

— Bob Iger

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an…

— Nicholas Hoult

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist…

— Anonymous

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a…

— Agnes Repplier

“You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist,…

— Felix Adler

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

“I'm no pessimist. I don't loathe art because I couldn't live without devoting all my time to it. I love it as…

— Ingo F. Walther

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the…

— Thomas Buckner

“Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace.…

— Norman Mailer

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

“The optimist says the glass is half full. The pessimist says the glass is half empty. It is only the truth seeker…

— Joseph Fink

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

— Jacques Barzun

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Jon Richardson

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

— Jim Rohn

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

— Eric Sevareid

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

— Nathan Englander

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living…

— Timothy Keller

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

— George Bernard Shaw

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Failure yesterday, failure today, failure tomorrow, at least I am a success at being a pessimist.

— Vikrant Parsai

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

— James Branch Cabell

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Don Marquis