Orhan Pamuk Quotes

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.

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

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.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I was briefly bitter.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

False hope really makes you cynical.

God save me from idealists.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

People, generally, suck.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

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

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

People are just so stupid.

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?

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.