James Lovelock Quotes

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

I am a hopeless optimist.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

I'm a generally optimistic person.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.