(113 quotes found)
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”
Antonio Gramsci
“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
“Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.”
William Arthur Ward
“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“A pessimist is never disappointed.”
Jack Cleary
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties”
Harry S Truman
“I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
Leonard Cohen
“Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.”
Thomas Hardy
“I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.”
Clint Eastwood
“My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists”
Edmond Rostand
