David Byrne Quotes

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?

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

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

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

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

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

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

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.

Sometimes it's hard not to feel really negative.

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.

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

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

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

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.

Disaffection stalks around us.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

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

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.