Robert Hunter Quotes

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

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

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

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.

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.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

Life is a jest; and all things show it., I thought so once; but now I know it.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

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.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

We must break the cycle of cynicism that has hold of many of our youth.

Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality.

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 am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things.

I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

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