Joni Mitchell Quotes

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

The world itself makes us sick of the world.

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

No one more cynical than an idealist.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for.

...the moron who thought love was forever.

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

All the little emptiness of love!

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.

A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life is a farce and we're all in it for ourselves and that the point of life is to amass as much money/fame/sexual gratification, you know, whatever your personal thing is, and that everything else is just glitter or PR image - that we're tired of sort of doing that stuff over and over again.