Eric Weiner Quotes

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

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

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

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

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.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Bitterness is so ugly.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

I have a big cynical side to me.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

One of the pleasures of pessimism is that when you’re right, you’re right and when you’re not, you’re pleased.

Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.

Oh, let's face it: I hate everything in others.

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.