Pessimist Quotes - Page 3

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.

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

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

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

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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

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

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

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.

I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'