Lydia Lunch Quotes

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

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

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I'm not in charge of my life.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

The real reason for apathy is usually a feeling of powerlessness.

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.