Bill Maher Quotes

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

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

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

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

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.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

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

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

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?

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

We all get discouraged.

Marriage is the death of hope.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.