I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
I'm a pessimist.
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.
The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.
I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.
I'm a massive pessimist.
I'm a total pessimist.
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.
I've never been an optimist.
Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.
In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
I'm a massive catastrophist by nature.
People do like to talk us down, it's a Scottish thing. We are pessimistic, we look for the negatives all the time.
Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.
