Miranda July Quotes

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

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

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

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

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.

I know for sure that nothing matters.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

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.

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.

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

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Authoritarian leadership and therefore a lack of democracy have led to a certain apathy among the people, to a sort of civil nihilism, a skepticism.

I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.