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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
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.
— Anthony Jeselnik
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
— Winston Churchill
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
— Phil Anselmo
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
— Walter Winchell
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
— Shimon Peres
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
— Winston S. Churchill
I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
— James A. Baldwin
An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
— Ada Leverson
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
— William Arthur Ward
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
The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.
— Marcus Buckingham
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
— Rene Descartes
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
— Kahlil Gibran
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
The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist.
— Gregor Collins
A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy.
— Mark Samuels
The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.
— Emil M. Cioran
Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.
— Jonathan Harnisch
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
The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.
— G.K. Chesterton
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
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
A pessimist is overwhelmed by the existential sufferings of life, he has no time to see the beauty and possibilities of life.
— Debasish Mridha
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
He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.
— Adam P. Knave
The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist see 452 calories and a shed load of sugar ...
— James Minter
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
— Winston S. Churchill
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.
— John Corey Whaley
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
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
— Mark Twain
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?
— Elizabeth Peters
The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks.
— Randall Munroe
I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.
— Grumpy Cat
To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
— Elsa Triolet
The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.
— Robert Kirkman
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
— Martin Seligman
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
— Helen Rowland
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
The optimist is a pessimist with a plan
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.
— Nicholas Proffitt
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
Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.
— Shannon L. Alder
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
The pessimist focuses on the storm;the optimist looks forward to the rainbow. — Matshona Dhliwayo
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one leaves.
— Bill Vaughan
More cruelly: he feared her faith because, as a fully paid-up pessimist, he knew he had none.
— John Le Carre
I don't know if the optimistsor the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done. — Craig Venter
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
— Harry Truman
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life
— Emile M. Cioran
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
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realistwhile you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! — Lori Greiner
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 never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
— Christopher Nolan
An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.
— Navjot Singh Sidhu
For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it.
— Debasish Mridha
You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I am not a pessimist.Just a well informed optimist. — Antonio Gala
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
— James Jones
Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.
— Brian Spellman
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
In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.
— Abel Aganbegyan
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?
— Robert Breault
Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.
— Charlie Munger
Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is - in essence - a closet pessimist.
— Todd Henry
To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
An optimist sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life?
— Debasish Mridha
Pessimist, are you?""I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions. — Charles Martin
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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