#pessimist

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

— Eric Sevareid

#after #day #i #optimist #pessimist

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#pessimistic #unseemly

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#been #egoism #future #god #hidden

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#crosses #looks #man #pessimist #street

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#feel #i #movies #now #pessimistic

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. ↗

— Roberto Rossellini

#evil #exists #form #i #i am

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#pessimists #right #superfluous

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

#discovered the secret #doorway #ever #human #human spirit

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#extends #other #pessimism #pessimists #point

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us. ↗

— Jane Rule

#became #even #gay #inspire #legislation