Pessimism Quote by Philip Pullman

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

— Francois Guizot

“He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth…

— Brandon Sanderson

“I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.”

— Anonymous

“Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I may be the optimist and you may be the Pessimist but you can never put a puzzle together with the two of the…

— Austin V. Songer

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

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

“Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.”

— Nicholas Proffitt

“Winston Churchill once quipped, “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” He”

— William Ury

“The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist? Neither. A fool.”

— Jay Asher

“An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.”

— Don Marquis

“An optimist is a braver cynic.”

— Colum McCann