Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
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.
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
When I look at history, I am a pessimist. . . but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen.
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
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 is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.