Pessimist Quotes

241 Pessimist quotes by 176 unique authors

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? — Rene Descartes
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march… — Robert A. Heinlein
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. — William Ralph Inge
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. — Helen Keller
I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films. — Spike Lee
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to… — Harvey Mackay
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They… — Harvey Mackay
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. — Don Marquis
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man… — Eugenio Montale
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. — Jack Nicholson
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am. — Christopher Nolan
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. — Laurence J. Peter
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. — Jean Rostand
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then… — Sylvester Stallone
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry S. Truman
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. — Mark Twain

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