“The nice thing about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”— Claud Cockburn
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”— Ronnie Barker
“I am a cynical optimist. I'm a pessimist in the short-term, but an optimist in the long-term.”— Thomas Haden Church
“I have no idées noires. I don't feel that the world is a particularly dark place. I'm a pragmatist.”— Patricia Highsmith
“I'm a pessimist in the sense that I'm aware of the dangers. But I'm an optimist in my belief that the Fates have not yet decided.”— Slavoj Zizek