Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse. ’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.
What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky. " He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break. " He torments himself continually.
[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
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 pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.