Daria

"I find human behavior endlessly fascinating and deeply disturbing."

"The worst part about being intelligent is that you can't turn it off."

"I'm not withdrawn. I'm just selectively social."

"Why should I care about what people think when they clearly don't think?"

"I've decided to accept the futility of everything."

"Everyone is terrible in their own special way."

"I think I've reached the point where I'm numb to disappointment."

"Happiness is a state of mind, and mine is a traffic jam."

"I'm not being negative. I'm being realistic."

"School is just a place where they teach you to be mediocre."

"Most people live lives of quiet desperation. I prefer loud apathy."

"I don't do feelings. I do observations."

"The problem with optimism is that it requires ignoring reality."

"My parents think I'm being difficult. I think they're being obtuse."

"I would prefer to remain neutral and apathetic."

"Why does everyone assume that quiet means sad?"

"I find that people are generally disappointing."

"The only reason I come to school is because it's illegal not to."

"I'm not depressed. I'm just more in tune with reality than everyone else."

"High school is a warehouse where they keep adolescents until they're old enough to be let out into society."

"Friendship is just a word people use to describe people they haven't murdered yet."

"I've given up trying to find meaning in life."

"The world is full of stupid people doing stupid things."

"I'm not being difficult. I'm being honest."

"Cynicism is just disappointed idealism."

"The problem isn't that I don't understand people. It's that I do."

"I find that my life is getting more and more like a badly written sitcom."

"Life is like a box of chocolates. But mostly it's like a box of disappointments."

"I'm not antisocial. I'm just not social."

"The problem with people is that they're people."