Daria Morgendorffer

"Health is just a slow decline with insurance payments."

"Adventure is suffering with a good ending."

"Imagination lets you live a better life than reality."

"Cynicism is just optimism with a better understanding of how the world actually works."

"I'm not anti-social, I'm just not social."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Wait, no, both are equally terrible."

"Life is too short to pretend to be interested in things you find completely pointless."

"I'd rather spend my time reading about fictional problems than dealing with real ones."

"Fashion is just a way to make people feel inadequate about things they've never needed."

"Why do people assume that popularity equals happiness? The data suggests otherwise."

"Popularity is just a numbers game, and I'm not interested in playing."

"School is essentially a holding pattern before actual life begins."

"I find human behavior fascinating in the way a scientist finds bacteria fascinating."

"Dreams are just your brain's way of processing disappointment in your sleep."

"The more I learn, the more I realize how little everyone else knows."

"Relationships are basically just two people agreeing to tolerate each other."

"Jane is probably the only person who won't eventually disappoint me."

"My parents think they understand me, which is almost funny."

"Change is inevitable, which is exactly why it's so annoying."

"Hope is just disappointment waiting to happen."

"Courage usually just means doing something stupid without thinking about it first."

"I'd rather be miserable on my own terms than happy on someone else's."

"Success is just another form of failure wearing a better outfit."

"Truth is usually something people want less of, not more."

"People use music to feel things they can't express themselves. How inefficient."

"Nature is just a backdrop for human suffering and irony."

"Art is what people call it when they can't sell it."

"Death would probably be less stressful than high school."

"Persistence just means doing the wrong thing over and over."

"Gratitude is what they teach you when they want you to accept less."