1. THE PESSIMIST QUOTES [email_address]

2. 1891-1937 I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Antonio Gramsci Italian Political Theorist & Activist [email_address]

3. 1874-1955 The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill Statesman, Author, Prime minister [email_address]

4. 1875-1965 An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian, theologian, missionary, organist, and medical doctor. [email_address]

5. 1884-1975 A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry S Truman Thirty-third President of the United States [email_address]

6. Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. Robert G Allen Marketer [email_address]

7. 1918- I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. Paul Harvey Radio icon [email_address]

8. 1904-1967 The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. J. Robert Oppenheimer Theoretical physicist [email_address]

9. 1892-1976 I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. Jean Paul Getty Oil executive and art collector. [email_address]

10. 1901-1971 However they appear to the pessimist of the present day, it is not in specialization or complication that the chief danger to progress seems to lie, it is in something much more deep-seated and much more elusive. John Desmond Bernal Irish physicist and crystallographer [email_address]

11. 1934- 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 Poet, musician, novelist, [email_address]

12. 1880-1968 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 Graduated cum laude from college as the first deafblind person. Socialist & Poet [email_address]

13. 1854-1900 Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. Oscar Wilde Victorian dramatist [email_address]

14. 1596-1650 An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Rene Descartes French mathematician, scientist and philosopher [email_address]

15. 1906-1977 I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. Roberto Rossellini Italian films director [email_address]

16. 1940- I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. Peter Benchley author, lecturer, environmentalist and diver. [email_address]

17. 1944- My optimism is shockingly refreshing George Sciberras Maltese PowerPoint Designer (Xiby) How about a little optimism? And you, are you optimistic? [email_address]