Because I work at Night...

... i looked online for quotes about pessimism. Enjoy!

Antonio Gramsci:
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”

G. B. Stern:
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”

Thomas Hardy:
“Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.”

George F. Will:
“Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.”

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


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

Jonathan Swift:
"Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived."

Janeane Garofalo:
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half- empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.


And My Favorite One of All:

Mark Twain:
“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little”