Caleb Carr Quotes

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

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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.

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

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

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

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

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

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

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

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

I never loved the world around me as it was.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get.

I'm a total pessimist.

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

I'm a massive pessimist.

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

I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.