Pessimism Quote by James Branch Cabell

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

— J Robert Oppenheimer

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

— Peter Ustinov

“The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators.”

— Francois Guizot

“An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who…

— Milan Kundera

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

— Francois Guizot

“the reason why pessimists are recruited among former optimists, since in order to have a black picture of the world it is necessary to…

— Ernesto Sabato

“We are not optimists because we can predict a bright and beautiful future, but we're not pessimists either, because the future is unknown and…

— William Ayers

“Human beings are designed to be local optimists and global pessimists.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

An optimist makes the impossible possible. A pessimist makes the possible impossible.

— Anonymous

“Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.”

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec