Quotes About Being A Pessimist

#1. I am so far from being a pessimist ... on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

Eugene O'Neill

#2. Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted.

Israelmore Ayivor

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

George F. Will

#4. Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Bill Bryson

#5. That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

James Jones

#6. Time's only a kind of dream, Kay. If it wasn't, it would have to destroy everything - the whole universe - and then remake it again every tenth of a second. But Time doesn't
destroy anything. It merely moves us on - in this life - from one peephole to the next.

J.B. Priestley

#7. The greatest modern philosopher was moved by nothing more than by duty. His life, in consequence, was unremarkable.

Roger Scruton

#8. Love, at its best, wipes commonsense
Away. Much as drops will condense
From hidden liquid in the air,
So, too, do lovers soon compare
Their temp'ratures til, happily,
Their judgement fogs up suddenly.

McKenzie Bodkin

#9. I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

Norman Cousins

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

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. Winston Churchill once quipped, "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." He went on to say, "I am an optimist. It does not seem much use being anything else.

William Ury

#12. According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

John Gresham Machen

#13. Sad to say I'm missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes.

Tiger Woods

#14. I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

Tamar Myers

#15. I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

John Corey Whaley

#16. I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#17. You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

Bill Walsh