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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

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

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

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. — Karel Appel

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

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 walked out of that office with my survey still in the box, unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist? Neither. A fool. I — Jay Asher

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive. — James A. Baldwin

Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist?
Neither. A fool. — Jay Asher

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

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos — Michael Lewis

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

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience. — Eyedea

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. — Will Harvey

Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. — Helen Keller

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

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. — James Lovelock

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

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

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

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little? — Wayne W. Dyer

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'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. — Lewis Mumford

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

You know you're a pessimist when you win an Oscar and think, "Oh God, I've peaked. — Cate Blanchett

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist. — Mark Twain

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old 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

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

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

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 Pessimist

but you can never put a puzzle together

with the two of the same pieces. — Austin V. Songer

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

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. — Katharine Whitehorn

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist. — Jules Breton

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

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

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

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout

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

An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise. — Milan Kundera

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. — William Ralph Inge

All I have is intuition and a little hope." "Don't be such a pessimist. You've also got two tires, two garbage bags, and a hollow spindle. — Stephen King

For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty.And for an Engineer it is twice
bigger than necessary. — Sudeep Nagarkar

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist. — Joan Baez

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

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. — Don Marquis

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right — Mark Twain

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way. — Nouriel Roubini

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

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films. — Spike Lee

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. — Laurence J. Peter

A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness. — Debasish Mridha

I am so far from being a pessimist ... on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. — Eugene O'Neill