Pessimist Quotes

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

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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

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

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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

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

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.

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

I've never met a successful pessimist.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

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.

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

Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.

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

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

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.