Pessimist Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There is no sadder sight than a young 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.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.