Pessimist Quotes

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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.

- Leonard Cohen

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

- Jack Nicholson

(About THX-1138) My first film was a parable about the way we are living our lives today. I realize it was a rather depressing statement. People really weren`t interested in a depressing statement. Being a pessimist doesn`t seem to accomplish anything.

- George Lucas

I have always had different aspects to my personality. I think I`m a long-term pessimist and a short-term optimist. I do feel a great darkness about humanity. But -- simultaneously and contradictorily -- I also feel that life can be pretty fabulous. I should also express some of that in my work; I don`t want to limit myself as a filmmaker. I want to be true to the parameters of all films. They should create a mood and tingle you emotionally. That is what I`m after. I want the audience to experience some feeling. I want them to know they`re alive.

- John Carpenter

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

- Peter Benchley

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.

- Robert A. Heinlein

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Christopher Nolan

I`m a pessimist. But I`m a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. If I had never joined the military, the weight of my words wouldn`t be so heavy.

- Maynard James Keenan

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

- Helen Keller

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

- Aaron Holmes

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

- Abdul Sattar

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

- Abu Hani

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

- Acton Gorton

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

- Alan Hawthorne

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

- Aleksander Suglobov

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

- Alexander Ryazanov

I`m not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

- Alfred Russel Wallace

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

- Andrew MacLeod

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

- Andrew MacLeod

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

- Oscar Wilde

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little

- Mark Twain

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

- Mark Twain

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

- Mark Twain

I`m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will

- Antonio Gramsci

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

- Bill Vaughn

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

- Daniel L. Reardon

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

- G. B. Stern

A pessimist is never disappointed.

- Jack Cleary

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

- William Arthur Ward

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.

- Clay Aiken