David Hume Quotes

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

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.

Nobody wants a complainer.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

Disaffection stalks around us.

One thing I don't like is complaints.

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

People are negative no matter what you do.

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.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

People like to complain.

I always complain.

Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.

If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!

No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.

The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

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

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.