Pessimist Quotes - Page 2

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

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

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

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

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.

At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve.

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.