Daria

"Power is temporary; being right is forever."

"Fear is just another word for rational assessment."

"Strength is often just stubbornness that works out."

"Kindness often backfires. I've seen the data."

"Patience is a virtue for people without anything better to do."

"Justice usually depends on whose side you're on."

"Creativity is just procrastination with better PR."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Hope is just disappointment waiting to happen."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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