A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.