Best 68 quotes in «pessimist quotes» category

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

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

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

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.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

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

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

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

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

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.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

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

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist, unable to formulate a system in which an individual could believe in God, government or self. Again like Kafka, she looked into the great abyss which separated the spiritual and the material and saw the terrifying emptiness, the hollowness, at the heart of every man, a sense of alienation she felt compelled to explore in her fiction. As her next hero, she would take an architect, 'a young man whose authority is art and therefore himself,' who when he murders, 'feels no guilt or even fear when he thinks of legal retribution'. The more she read of Kafka the more she felt afraid as she came to realise, 'I am so similar to him.

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

Do this exercise: Demolish the bridges of pessimism behind you. If you do this very well, you'll have no other choice than to move forward! Successful people are always optimistic!

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness.

Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.

I know that human life is horrible. I know that it is utterly unlike art. I have no religion except my own task of being. Conventional religions are dream stuff. Always a world of fear and horror lies but a millimetre away. Any man, even the greatest, can be broken in a moment and has no refuge. Any theory which denies this is a lie.

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it before? You have? It's not going to kill you, then. If you've had the same thing before, you'll be alright in the morning.' My mother couldn't have more profoundly disagreed with that. 'You're such an optimist, dear,' she often said with a sigh. 'You're a good deal of a pessimist, sweetheart.' 'I certainly am.' And yet, I was well aware as I stood between them, he the optimist was the one who was prepared for the worst, and she the pessimist was the daredevil.

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

If the journey to success and happiness was hundred miles, some people would calculate it by meters and get discouraged by the numbers they come up with.

Is the definition of a pessimist a person who only sees what he hasn't got but wants? Would an optimist never see the empty space? Or is there some other detail I'm leaving out? Is it more complicated? I don't know. It isn't always bad to see the empty space, is it? Isn't it all right to see both, the filled space and the empty space? You could be in either. I have to try and see everything.

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

Most pessimists are blinded by darkness.

Optimism is an effort.

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices. When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie. Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!

Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.

Some people usually make lemons, when life gives them lemonade.

I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.