Pessimist Quotes

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

Optimist, Difficulty, Sees

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

Change, Wind, Optimist

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

Optimist, Difficulty, Sees

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain

Young, Sight, Sadder

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

Before, After, Knows

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller

Human, Stars, Secret

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

Two, Choice, Both

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

Person, Listen, Optimists

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes

May, Why, Light

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

Person, Optimist, Acquainted

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.
Robert A. Heinlein

Fun, Become, Stop

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

Makes, Optimist

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

Wise, Person, Light

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

Best, True, Possible

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will

Nice, Either, Surprised

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan

Old, Year, Until

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Bodett

Forget, Laugh, Between

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov

Sad, Fool, After

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

Rain, Waiting, Someone

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Profound, Danger

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

School, Last, Year

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Laurence J. Peter

Both, Looks, Ways

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean de La Fontaine

Worse, Optimist

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
Maynard James Keenan

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

Christian, Optimism, System

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams

Politics, Art, Mean

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

Seen, Erected, Monument

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Paul Harvey

Today, Tomorrow, Lived

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

Rich, Become, Optimist

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

Hope, Find, Films

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