Top 279 Pessimist Quotes & Sayings

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

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

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead.

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

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

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

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

I'm not a total pessimist; I'm excited by the future as well.

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

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

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

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.

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

I'm a massive pessimist.

I'm a total pessimist.

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

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

I've never met a successful pessimist.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

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

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

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

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

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

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.

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

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

I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

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

I'm a pessimist.

I've always been a bit of a pessimist in regard to mankind.

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

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

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

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

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.

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

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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