Top 279 Pessimist Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 24, 2024.
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.
Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.
I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.
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.
I am, by nature, not optimistic: my fellow drag queens would probably describe me as a pessimist.
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
I'm always naturally a bit of a pessimist. And my mom is sorta the opposite.
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.
I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken.
There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.
I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
I'm a pessimist by nature, so I don't believe something until someone has kind of punched me over the head with it.
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.
Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.
I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism
To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!
