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A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Sep 10, 2025
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live 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.
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.
A pessimist sees only 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.
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
We live in the best of all possible worlds
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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.
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
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