Nick Cave Quotes

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

I'm not paranoid,I just don't trust people.

If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker.

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

These days I don't know who really likes me. I always assume most people are bullshitting me.

Everyone’s default state is this pleasantry state. My goal in the show is to undercut that as quickly as possible. If you really do let it sit, it’s sometimes amazing what comes out of people.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."