Quotes About Pessimist

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

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.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. So

The pessimist's nostalgia, deteriorism goes far beyond simply whining that things used to be better and takes the bold stance that the world is actively and energetically going to hell in a handbasket. also

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

This is why we need you," said Much comfortably. "You're a pessimist and a good planner.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

I am no pessimist. Happy are those who can make of their suffering something universal. I don't know if the world is sad or bad, nor do I care, because I feel bored and indifferent in the face of other people's suffering.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Optimist , n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

From the day I met you, I've known that you are a glass-half-empty-and-maybe-poisonous guy.

I defy any man to be a pessimist on the subject of American character after a season or two on the lecture platform; provided of course that he is a reasonably sympathetic man, and is so constituted in matters social that he is what the politicians call a "good mixer."

Marcuse's appeal to an emergency situation bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the justifications for Hitler's emergency decrees in 1933. The resemblance is no coincidence. Like his cultural pessimist counterparts on the German revolution on the Right, Marcuse impatiently awaited the emergence of a new cultural order out of the rubble of the old liberal capitalist West.

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.