Quotes by Pessimist I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities. Lewis Mumford pessimistpossibilityoptimism I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat. Lisa Kleypas pessimistboatjackets Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach pessimistablejoy How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach pessimismpessimistjoy A pessimist is a well-informed optimist. Mark Twain pessimistoptimistwells It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right Mark Twain pessimistoptimismsometimes Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. Martin Seligman pessimisttragedyweather I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. Max Lerner pessimistpossibilityoptimist I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. Maynard James Keenan pessimistsense-of-responsibilityresponsibility Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive. Mark Twain pessimistpessimisticoptimist Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up. Mira Grant pessimistwake-upsometimes An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole. Navjot Singh Sidhu doughnutpessimistoptimist No one really knows enough to be a pessimist. Norman Cousins pessimistenoughinspirational I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way. Nouriel Roubini pessimistbleakway I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Paul Harvey pessimistoptimismencouragement A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath. Peter Greenaway pessimistgayused One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses. Pope Francis pessimistserioustemptation The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. Ralph Waldo Trine pessimistperspectiveviews [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Rex Stout pleasant-surprisespessimistoptimist Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope. Robin Sharma pessimistno-hopeoptimist«12345»
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