Rob Thurman Quotes

I was briefly bitter.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

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

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

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.

Cheer up, things will get worse.

When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

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

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

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

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.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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?

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

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.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

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 found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

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

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I've stopped many things such as healthy eating. What's the point? In this post-truth era, I feel increasingly powerless.