pessimist

"The expression of pessimist sentiments doesn't necessarily mean a fundamental rejection of participating in the labour market and society at large," says Dr Luo.

A year of dating in L.A. turned me into a pessimist, so I tried not to count all the ways this could go wrong — like, what if he doesn’t show up?

“Although I’m famous as a pessimist, I really haven’t been pessimistic,” Davis told me in 2022, the last time we saw each other, months before he died of esophageal cancer at 76.

In addition, my friend told me that in 1930s Germany, there was a saying that the pessimists went to New York and London, and the optimists went to Auschwitz.

Today, pessimists say the battle is over and lost.