Pessimists Quotes (page 2)

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• humanity
• star
• the secret

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller

• money
• expectation
• borrow

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. Oscar Wilde

• optimistic
• stumbling
• optimist

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. Eleanor Roosevelt

• life
• dream
• world

They too entered the world of dreams- that world in which a third of each man's life is spent, and which is thought by some pessimists to be a premonition of eternity. E. M. Forster

• happy
• good
• exercise

It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly pessimistic - as if God no sooner saw two of His creatures happy than He stopped it ('None of that here!'). As if He were like the Hostess at the sherry-party who separates two guests the moment they show signs of having got into a real conversation. But it could also mean 'This had reached its proper perfection. This had become what it had in it to be. Therefore of course it... C. S. Lewis

• die
• different
• end

The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way. Paulo Coelho

• life
• happy
• fear

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation. Helen Keller

• blessed
• today
• tomorrow

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed. Maya Angelou

• faith
• society
• only

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society. Carlos Fuentes

• optimistic
• sometimes
• extra

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information. Idries Shah

• him
• recognition
• history

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist. Colin Wilson

• optimistic
• surprise
• nothing

...a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Rex Stout

• people
• thinking
• personality

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. Idries Shah

• black white
• white
• color

In a word, God paints in many colors; but he never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. In a sense our age has realized this fact, and expressed it in our sullen costume. For if it were really true that white was a blank and colorless thing, negative and non-committal, then white would be used instead of black and grey for the funereal dress of this pessimistic period. Which is not the case. Meanwhile I could not find my chalk. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• optimistic
• old
• than

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. Mark Twain