I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.
I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.
No one knows enough to be a pessimist