Chuck Jones Quotes

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Our line of work is very cynical, and a lot of it is driven by cynicism, cruelty, and meanness. It's easier to believe the negative stuff than the positive stuff. The feel-good stories don't usually spend a lot of time on the front pages.

I know that there are many people who are hoping that things don't go well for me.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

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

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

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears.

If you take five taxis a day, one driver will be nasty, and the other four are perfectly nice. You remember the nasty one. But you should remember the four who were nice.

I know I'm probably digging for fresh fruit in the garbage, and as much as anyone, my attitude is, if stuff's sincere, it's gooey and boring and uninteresting. But it's no way to live.

People love drama. They feed off of it.

So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.

You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

Watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing. I live in a constant state of depression. I think of us as turd miners. I put on my helmet, I go and mine turds, hopefully I don't get turd lung disease.

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.