Pessimist Quotes - page 6

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. (Leonard Louis Levinson)
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective. View quote
Harvey Mackay
I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films. View quote
Spike Lee
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. View quote
Gladys Bronwyn Stern
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. View quote
William Ralph Inge
The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell-”Abandon hope, ye who enter here.”. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. View quote
Katharine Whitehorn
The optimist believes that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this might be the case. View quote
Ivar Ekeland
Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. View quote
James Branch Cabell
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. View quote
Matthieu Ricard
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel. (Sydney J. Harris)
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. View quote
Paul Harvey
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I am the eternal pessimist. I always expect the worst and have never been disappointed. View quote
Michael Savage
Masonically we are heirs of past. Our Masonic ancestors gave the craft devotion, loyalty and faith and made it an illustrious institution in the world. It should be our religious duty to appreciate and conserve the rich inheritance. In view of the increasing complexity of life and the maintenance of the best and highest traditions of the Craft, great care and concern should be displayed, if Freemasonry has to function in the best interests of humanity. It has been truly said, that an inspired and inspiring dedication to service should be the part of every Mason's life. Let us not give in to skepticism. There is all the difference between a pessimist and an optimist, in any field of human endeavour. One looks at his glass and cries "My glass is half empty”. The optimist looks and exclaims "My glass is half full”. View quote
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
Basically I'm an optimist. Intellectually I can see man's balance is about fifty-fifty, and his chances of blowing himself up are about one to one. I can't see this any way but intellectually. I'm just emotionally unable to believe that he will do this. This means that I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist, I suppose. View quote
William Golding