The Pessimist And The Optimist Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

Franklin P. Adams

#4. I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

Frances Moore Lappe

#5. The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist.

Gregor Collins

#6. Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Oscar Wilde

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

Jean De La Fontaine

#8. The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.

Robert Kirkman

#9. To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks.

Randall Munroe

#11. You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

Rondal Partridge

#12. The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Kahlil Gibran

#13. The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#14. I may be the optimist and you may be the Pessimist

but you can never put a puzzle together

with the two of the same pieces.

Austin V. Songer

#15. A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

Leonard Louis Levinson

#16. I'm supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty," I told her.
Without a moment's hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: "It depends on if you're drinking or pouring.

Bill Cosby

#17. The pessimist says, 'It can't get any worse!' And the optimist replies, 'Oh yes it can!

Madeleine Urban

#18. For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty.And for an Engineer it is twice
bigger than necessary.

Sudeep Nagarkar

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

Eric Sevareid

#20. The optimist believes that bad events have specific causes, while good events will enhance everything he does; the pessimist believes that bad events have universal causes and that good events are caused by specific factors. When

Martin E.P. Seligman

#21. Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist
while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

Lori Greiner

#22. An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Oscar Wilde

#23. Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.
Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.
Is the glass part full or part empty?
Take another sip.
And now?

Vera Nazarian

#24. Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.

Robert A. Heinlein

#25. Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.

Jonathan Harnisch

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

Tom Bodett

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

J. Oswald Sanders

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Ada Leverson

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

George Bernard Shaw

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

James Branch Cabell

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

Debasish Mridha

#39. 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

#40. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.
Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

Matthieu Ricard

#42. 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

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

James Minter

#44. 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

#45. 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

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

William Arthur Ward

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

Martin Seligman

#48. Reciprocal illusions: the pessimist's fear and the optimist's hope.

Marty Rubin

#49. The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Albert Schweitzer

#50. The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.

Paulo Coelho

#51. The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

Sydney J. Harris