Charlie Brooker Quotes

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

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.

I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

I'm rarely optimistic.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

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 am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I'm not optimistic.

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

I have a very sardonic view of life.

The world itself makes us sick of the world.

It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.

Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.