Pessimist Quotes

241 Pessimist quotes by 176 unique authors

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. — Sean O Faolain
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. — William Arthur Ward
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward
Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege. — William Beveridge
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. — Chauncey Depew
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and… — Aldous Huxley
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. — Helen Rowland
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved,… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on… — William DeWitt Hyde
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good. — John Corey Whaley
I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned. — Colin Mochrie
A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill. — Mike Royko
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. Itâ€™s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life — Emile M. Cioran
Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors. — Wes Fesler
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times… — Emile M. Cioran
I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists… — Tamar Myers
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded… — A. E. Housman
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding… — James Branch Cabell
One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses. — Pope Francis

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