Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old pessimist quotes, pessimist sayings, and pessimist proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.Debasish Mridha
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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.Chauncey Depew
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Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.Martin Heidegger
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.Oscar Wilde
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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: Oh yes they could!Vladimir Bukovsky
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There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.Jules Renard
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.William Arthur Ward
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An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.Laurence J Peter
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Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.Jonathan Harnisch
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Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.Robin Sharma
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.Albert Schweitzer
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.Antonio Gramsci
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Indeed, I think it must be more agreeable, must have a more real savor, than optimism--from the way in which pessimists abandon themselves to it.Arnold Bennett
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We are accused of pessimism, as though pessimism were but one among a number of possible attitudes, as if man were capable of choosing between two alternatives.Arthur Adamove
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Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.Arthur Lynch
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If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.Bruce Lee
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Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.Bruce Springsteen
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.Don Marquis
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A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.Edward Abbey
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Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective. Francis Parker Yockey
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.George Will
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Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.Jack Welch
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.Jean de la Fontaine
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The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.John C. Maxwell
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The good part about being a pessimist is, when something bad happens, you're never really devastated by it. And when something good happens, it's such a bonus.John Rzeznik
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Optimism is joyful searching; pessimism is a prison of fear and a clutching at illusionary safety.Kathleen A. Brehony
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.Khalil Gibran
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Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong. Pessimism will keep you alive, optimism won't.Laurell K. Hamilton