Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

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.

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

I felt like things could never get any worse.

Pessimism is my default setting.

I'm not optimistic.

Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.

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

I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.

I'm rarely optimistic.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

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

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

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.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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?