Rufus Wainwright Quotes

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

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

I'm done in this business, that's for sure.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

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?

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.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.

All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.