Khaled Hosseini Quotes

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

I was dead inside.

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

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

(Beth) "I don't care anymore." I turned my face up toward Heaven. "That's not my home anymore. You are.

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.

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

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

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

Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.