Tavi Gevinson Quotes

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.

You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

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.

I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

Always think the worst. That way you will avoid too much disappointment in life.

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

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

I used to trust people easily, but now I'm a little careful because some experiences have taught me to not trust anyone blindly.

I just never count on anything. You can't.

I just don't get my hopes up. I don't expect too much from people in the league because you just never know what could happen.

I try not to get my hopes up too high with anything, because I'll never be let down that way.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I'm not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing. You can have an argument with someone who's a sceptic. When I say 'cynic', I mean someone who has given up, and they want you to give up too, so it makes them feel better about themselves.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.