Daria Morgendorffer

"People confuse confidence with competence all the time."

"Most problems would solve themselves if we just ignored them long enough."

"Advice is what people give you when they should be listening."

"Romance is what happens when someone hasn't figured you out yet."

"Compromise usually means nobody gets what they want."

"I don't have a problem with people, just with most of them."

"Authority is just confidence that nobody questions."

"Rules exist because people can't be trusted to do the right thing."

"Effort without talent is just prolonged suffering."

"Happiness is supposedly the goal, but nobody can quite define it."

"The future is going to be disappointing, but at least it's predictable."

"Regret is just hindsight with emotional weight."

"Self-improvement is a lifelong project that nobody actually finishes."

"Small talk is a necessary evil that I refuse to accept."

"Honesty is appreciated in theory and despised in practice."

"People are interesting studies in self-deception."

"The fact that we require sleep just proves nature hates us."

"Intelligence is a curse when everyone else is irrational."

"Success without suffering would make the universe unbalanced."

"Everyone thinks they're the protagonist of their own story."

"Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen."

"I'd rather be alone than with people who bore me."

"Society is basically just one long popularity contest."

"Boredom is when your mind is more interesting than your surroundings."

"Friendship requires effort, which is probably why I don't have many."

"Closure is a myth people invented to feel better about their problems."

"Work is what prevents people from realizing how empty their lives are."

"The irony of life is that knowledge doesn't prevent suffering."

"Character is usually just desperation pretending to be virtue."

"Legacy is what people obsess over when they realize they're mortal."