George Carlin Quotes

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

False hope really makes you cynical.

I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

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.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

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.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

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.

Marriage is the death of hope.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.