Pessimist Quotes

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.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

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.

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

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

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 march of events.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

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.

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.