John Brunner Quotes

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.

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?

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

I just don't get my hopes up. I don't expect too much from people in the league because you just never know what could happen.

One of the key emotions a lot of people seem to be feeling is disillusionment, and what I try to do as a lyricist is touch on these emotions.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

I'm never going to run this again.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?” said David. “I don't have much faith in anything,” Roland replied. “Not even in myself.”