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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
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
— William Golding
A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
— Josiah Stamp
I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
— David Souter
A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness.
— Debasish Mridha
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
— Winston Churchill
You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
— Rondal Partridge
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
— Walter Winchell
From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist," he said. "I have to be.
— Elie Wiesel
I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
— James A. Baldwin
I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, ... an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.
— Octavia E. Butler
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
— Nick Cave
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
— Rene Descartes
I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.
— Diablo Cody
So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.
— Jennifer Bosworth
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
— Will Harvey
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
To see all pessimists as pessimists is to be a pessimist.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
— Idries Shah
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
— Chauncey Depew
I'm a pessimist by nature, so I don't believe something until someone has kind of punched me over the head with it.
— Theo James
Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.
— C. JoyBell C.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
— Albert Einstein
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
— Mark Twain
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
— Robert G. Allen
An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet.
— G.K. Chesterton
In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
— Damien Chazelle
One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action.
— Marty Rubin
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.
— Mark Twain
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
— Norman Cousins
I may be the optimist and you may be the Pessimistbut you can never put a puzzle together
with the two of the same pieces. — Austin V. Songer
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
— Katharine Whitehorn
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
— Laurence J. Peter
You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
— Peter Greenaway
Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted.
— Israelmore Ayivor
An optimist looks at a seed and sees a tree; a pessimist looks at a tree and sees a forest fire. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.
— Shannon L. Alder
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
— Ellen Goodman
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?
— Robert Breault
No one knows enough to be a pessimist
— Wayne W. Dyer
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
— Maynard James Keenan
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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
— Jacques Barzun
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
— William Beveridge
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
— William Ralph Inge
For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty.And for an Engineer it is twicebigger than necessary. — Sudeep Nagarkar
Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.
— Nicholas Proffitt
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
— Harry Truman
It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.
— Stanislaw Ulam
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.
— Albert Schweitzer
I am not a pessimist.Just a well informed optimist. — Antonio Gala
To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
— Elsa Triolet
Happy isn't even a real idea," he said. "It's just like love. A reasonably skeptical person doesn't even know what it means.
— Ethan Canin
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
— J. Paul Getty
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight ... the truly wise person is colorblind.
— Albert Schweitzer
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
— Roberto Rossellini
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.
— Lenny Abrahamson
When opportunity knocks a pessimist dials 911;when opportunity knocks an optimist sets the table. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
— Bill Maher
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.
— Domhnall Gleeson
A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy.
— Mark Samuels
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
— Mark Twain
I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
— Cate Blanchett
Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.
— Emil M. Cioran
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
— Laurence J. Peter
