Marc Maron Quotes

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 do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they're tired of is listening to that sound, the sound of the people who've given up.

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

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

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

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 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.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

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

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

We must break the cycle of cynicism that has hold of many of our youth.

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.

I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.