Garry Shandling Quotes

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

I don't think the end of the world is the end of the world.

In my case, there are only two kinds of hope - Bob Hope and no hope.

Your apocalypse was fab.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.