Quotes About Pessimist

#1. Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

J. Oswald Sanders

#2. The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

Sylvester Stallone

#3. An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Idries Shah

#4. Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist?
Neither. A fool.

Jay Asher

#5. The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

William Arthur Ward

#6. I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Christopher Nolan

#7. This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#8. A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

Ambrose Bierce

#9. I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

Jules Breton

#10. The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.

Emil M. Cioran

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

James Jones

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Chauncey Depew

#14. Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet's crust crumbles to dust.

Edgar Saltus

#15. A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Oscar Wilde

#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. The pessimist focuses on the storm;
the optimist looks forward to the rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Idries Shah

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

Colin Mochrie

#20. I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

Bill Maher

#21. An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

Ada Leverson

#22. I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

Nicholas Hoult

#23. I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

A.E. Housman

#24. Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

#25. A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

Victor Cherbuliez

#26. I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

Diablo Cody

#27. I don't like him," said Gus. "Never did. Guy bitches about what he doesn't have, loses sight of what he does have, and is never happy. He's what you call a - what's that word?"
"Pessimist?" said Fet.
"Asshole," said Gus.

Guillermo Del Toro

#28. A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.

Debasish Mridha

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

Will Harvey

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

John Corey Whaley

#31. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

#32. The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

William Arthur Ward

#33. When opportunity knocks a pessimist dials 911;
when opportunity knocks an optimist sets the table.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#34. I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

William Golding

#35. Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

Colin Wilson

#36. Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.

Vladimir Nabokov

#37. If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.

Deborah Ellis

#38. The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain light but as it is, and believes only in God and God's power towards all and over all that is seen. (in No Rusty Swords)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#39. Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#40. In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.

Abel Aganbegyan

#41. We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!"
Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."
"Big doubts?" I said weakly.
The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.

Kenneth Oppel

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

Oscar Wilde

#43. I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

Nouriel Roubini

#44. But it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.

Charles Williams

#45. I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Martin

#46. Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

David Harley

#47. You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

Amy Jo Cousins

#48. Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Mark Twain

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

Peter Ustinov

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

James Branch Cabell

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

Peter Benchley

#52. He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.

William George Jordan

#53. An optimist sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life?

Debasish Mridha

#54. The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Agnes Repplier

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

Mark Twain

#56. [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Rex Stout

#57. An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

Milan Kundera

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

J. Paul Getty

#59. A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Walter Winchell

#60. On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

Helen Caldicott

#61. A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

Jim Rohn

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

Jacques Barzun

#63. An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

Harry S. Truman

#64. You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#65. For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it.

Debasish Mridha

#66. Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

Louis MacNeice

#67. The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#68. I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

Lesslie Newbigin

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

Jack Nicholson

#70. It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Mark Twain

#71. The pessimist's credo, or one of them, is that nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone.

Thomas Ligotti

#72. An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

Laurence J. Peter

#73. I've never met a successful pessimist.

William O'Neil

#74. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos

Michael Lewis

#75. Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

Emil Cioran

#76. The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.

G.K. Chesterton

#77. When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

Matthieu Ricard

#78. It is not at all polite to point out a crusty old pessimist's dark inner secret.

Brandon Sanderson

#79. An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

Helen Rowland

#80. Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Oscar Wilde

#81. The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist see 452 calories and a shed load of sugar ...

James Minter

#82. To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Munia Khan

#83. A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

#84. 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.

Robert A. Heinlein

#85. I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.

Lewis Mumford

#86. The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Christian D. Larson

#87. Rut, routine, robotic. These are the three R's of adult-hood. Wake up, eat, go to work, eat, work more, come home, eat, sleep, and repeat every day until we all reach retirement, or death.

Craig R. Key

#88. A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning.

Marty Rubin

#89. 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

#90. To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

William Arthur Ward

#91. The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Francois Guizot

#92. Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

Martin Seligman

#93. In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Daniel Reardon

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

William Arthur Ward

#96. I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.
It never is, sir.
Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

Oscar Wilde

#97. I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.

Domhnall Gleeson

#98. I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

Nick Cave

#99. Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.

Nicholas Proffitt

#100. To see all pessimists as pessimists is to be a pessimist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana