Arthur Helps Quotes

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

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

I have earned my disillusionment.

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

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

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

Expectations are an evil thing.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

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

I was briefly bitter.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Get used to disappointment.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

God save me from idealists.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

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

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.