Pessimist Quotes

No sense being a pessimist, it wouldn’t do any good anyway.

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

A pessimist is someone who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

Pessimists calculate the odds, optimists believe they can overcome them.

I am an optimist rather than a pessimist. It is possible that the pessimists may be proven right in the long run, but we optimists have a better time on the trip.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all he’s walking on them.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.