Quotes with pessimist

  • Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

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  • George Bernard Shaw A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Don Marquis A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Walter Winchell A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
    Walter Winchell
    American newspaper and radio commentator (1897 - 1972)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Winston Churchill A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
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    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Max Lerner I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • James Baldwin I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
    Doom and glory of knowing who you are
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Antonio Gramsci I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Paul Harvey I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.
    Paul Harvey
    American radio broadcaster (1918 - 2009)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • E. M. Cioran Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Oscar Wilde Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Joe Karbo Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.
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  • Tom Bodett The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
    Tom Bodett
    American writer and actor (1955 - )
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  • Mark Twain The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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