Zitat des Tages über Pessimist:
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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.
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.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments... Always on to the next and never in the moment.
I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
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?
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
