Christian Lacroix Quotes

Disaffection stalks around us.

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

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?

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 think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

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.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

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

People are hurting, and they feel very disengaged and disenfranchised.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

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

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

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

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

I'd never been content in America.

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

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 live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.