Pessimist Quotes

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.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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

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

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

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

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

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

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

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

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

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