Sigmund Freud Quotes

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

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

People are no damned good.

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.

Skepticism about authority turns into corrosive cynicism.

There's a lot to be said for misanthropy.

People, generally, suck.

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

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.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.

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.

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 am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

I have a big cynical side to me.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.