John Connolly Quotes

A lot of these dudes in metal, they're just mad at the world because, like... who even knows?

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.

I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smack people in the face and say, 'Wake up!'

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Disaffection stalks around us.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.

You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

Everybody in America is angry about something.

I'm not exactly an angry young person.

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

I'm getting grumpier all the time.

I was briefly bitter.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

People expect me to be angry, bitter. They expect to me be abrasive, aggressive. I'm not.