Top Pessimist Quotes

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.– William Golding

A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.– Debasish Mridha

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit.– Debasish Mridha

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.– John Kenneth Galbraith

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone’s life.– Abhijit Naskar

I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.– Antonio Gramsci
