Phil Anselmo Quotes

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

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

One of the pleasures of pessimism is that when you’re right, you’re right and when you’re not, you’re pleased.

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

I'm a massive pessimist.

I'm a pessimist.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

I'm rarely optimistic.

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.

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

I've never been an optimist.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

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

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

I'm probably the most negative person around.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Pessimism is my default setting.

I'm a total pessimist.

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

I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.