Pessimist Quotes

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

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 possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

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 is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

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.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.