Pessimist Quotes - Page 10

• Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

  Mira Grant

  Wake Up, Sometimes

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

  Barbara Mertz

  Disappointment, Optimist, Sensible

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• The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Judging

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

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• "I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Perfect, Satisfaction

  "Wilde Complete Plays".

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• 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.

  Henry Adams

  Art, Mean, Literature

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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• I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

  Octavia Butler

  Ambition, Oil And Water, Years

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• The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

  Albert Schweitzer

  God, Faith, Hope

  Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

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• Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.324, Penguin

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• No one knows enough to be a pessimist

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Enough

  Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “21 Days to Master Success and Inner Peace”, p.9, Hay House, Inc

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• I am constantly challenged by pessimists who insist that military solutions are the only way to go. This was true in the 1980s, and it is true today. You should know that I do not consider myself a pacifist; there are times, in my view, when military action may be necessary.

  Oscar Arias

  Military, Today, Action

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  Tony Blair's speech at the 2004 Labour conference in Brighton, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2004.

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• The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

  Tom Bodett

  Inspirational, Funny, Differences

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• No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Christian, Optimism, Grace

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• The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.

  John Hurt

  Witty, Optimistic, Truthful

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

  David Petraeus

  Reality, Iraq, Realist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Film

  "Q+A: Spike Lee Goes Back to Brooklyn". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Opportunity, Maintaining The Status Quo

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• 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?

  Eugenio Montale

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

  Christopher Nolan

  Lucky, Persons, Extraordinary

  "Biography: Christopher Nolan". www.thecinemaholic.com. February 10, 2018.

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• A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Looks, Literature

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• The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Memorable, Men, Two

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• I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

  Peter Ustinov

  Order, World, Fool

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Optimistic, Optimism, Scar

  Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

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• To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Depressing, Profound, Danger

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• ...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Philosophy, Optimistic, Mind

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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