Always Quote by Nathan Englander

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't…

— Helen Caldicott

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

— Nick Bostrom

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you…

— Edwin Morgan

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

I'd rather be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.

— Drake

It is better to be an optimist (a positive-minded person) because being a pessimist will get you nowhere.

— Melchor Lim

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

— Victor Cherbuliez

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…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

— Mark Twain

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

— Eyedea

“Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).”

— Claire

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

— Nate Lowman