Jim Cornette Quotes

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

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

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 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.

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.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I don't hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that.

False hope really makes you cynical.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

I'm a recovering optimist.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

He who awaits much can expect little.

I haven't found anything to complain about. But being Scottish, it won't be long.

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

If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

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

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.