Quotes on Pessimist

We live in the best of all possible worlds

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.

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

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

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.

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

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

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!