A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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?
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.