Pessimist Quotes

241 Pessimist quotes by 176 unique authors

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. — Oscar Wilde
The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you… — Jodi Picoult
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial --… — Octavia Butler
I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat. — Lisa Kleypas
We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I… — Kenneth Oppel
I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best to give satisfaction,… — Oscar Wilde
What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders… — Brandon Sanderson
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. — Idries Shah
[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it. — Amy Waldman
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information. — Idries Shah
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. — Harvey Mackay
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! — Oscar Wilde
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars. — Helen Keller
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the… — Sydney J. Harris
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist. — Laurence J. Peter
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. — James Branch Cabell
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. — Chauncey Depew
Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all… — James Branch Cabell
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. — Robert G. Allen
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. — William Beveridge

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