#pessimist

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

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe. ↗

— Mark Zandi

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

— Paul Getty

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Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. ↗

— Paul Harvey

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I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. ↗

— Paul Harvey

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I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. ↗