Patrick deWitt Quotes

I've never been an optimist.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Pessimism is my default setting.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

I'm rarely optimistic.

I'm so optimistic, it's depressing.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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

I'm probably the most negative person around.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

I'm not optimistic.

I see the bad in everything I do.

I've always been a glass-half-empty sort of person.

I'm a massive pessimist.

So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.

I'm sort of a negative guy.

I'm English, so I can be very 'half empty.'

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.