Top Pessimist Quotes
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain
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.
Albert Schweitzer
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
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
Elbert Hubbard 
Chauncey Depew 
Paul Harvey 
William Ralph Inge 
William Beveridge All Pessimist Quotes
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill 
82% of people like this quote
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.
Albert Schweitzer
65% of people like this quote
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
64% of people like this quote
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
63% of people like this quote
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
61% of people like this quote
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Bodett
57% of people like this quote
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
56% of people like this quote
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
William Ralph Inge
56% of people like this quote
Popular Pessimist Authors
Mark TwainOscar WildeWinston ChurchillElbert HubbardHarry S. TrumanHelen KellerAlbert SchweitzerF. Scott FitzgeraldJack NicholsonLaurence J. PeterJean de La FontaineDon MarquisRobert A. HeinleinPeter UstinovPaul Getty
Clay AikenJames LovelockColin MochrieRene DescartesWilliam Ralph IngeEugenio MontaleGeorge WillBill VaughanWilliam Arthur WardWalter WinchellLeonard CohenPeter BenchleyPaul HarveyJ. Robert OppenheimerEric Sevareid
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