Danny Elfman Quotes

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

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?

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

Maybe next time, but probably not.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

I've never been an optimist.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

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.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

The future is kind of a bleak place.