Sirio Maccioni Quotes

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

I'm probably the most negative person around.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

I'm not a positive guy.

Sometimes I was sad, sometimes happy. Just on and off. Always I felt welcome. It's just, you know, sometimes as a human being, you cannot always be happy. You do good things, you do bad things, people talk.

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

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

That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

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

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

I'm never entirely happy. That's just part of my personality, and I just have to accept that.

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.

I'm so optimistic, it's depressing.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

I've never been an optimist.

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.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.