A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

- Elbert Hubbard

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

- Joan Baez

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

- Jean de La Fontaine

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

- J. Paul Getty

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

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

- Harry S Truman

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

- George Will

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

- Eric Sevareid

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

- Antonio Gramsci

They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.

- Ehud Barak

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

- David Souter

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

- Don Marquis

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

- Chauncey Depew

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.

- Clay Aiken

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

- Cyrano de Bergerac

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

- Colin Mochrie

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

- Christopher Nolan

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

- Bill Vaughan