Michel Faber Quotes

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

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

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.

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

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

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.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

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

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

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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?

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.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

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.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.