How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
I've always been a bit of a pessimist in regard to mankind.
I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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.
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
People don't like to follow pessimists.
We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.