Cynicism Quotes
Has anybody ever told you you’re a remarkably cynical person?”“I like to think of it as learning from experience.
The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.
motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
You have to understand something about girls, Mick. You see 'em in the winner's circle, but you'll never find horseshit on their shoes.
Maybe he wasn’t there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.
You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali
There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.
She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human.
His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie, ' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.
There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.
Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself, ' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?
Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?
I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.
Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.
The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer.
When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity.
Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.
Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.
Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.
It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.
She would put her “naïve American optimism” toward making herself indispensable to him, and she’d win him. Because naïve American optimism beat out English cynicism any day.
You're confident he'll have found him, then?""Well, no. I didn't sat that.""If there's one thing I hate, " Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, "it's mindless optimism.
Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.
They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of tender thoughts.
It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.
The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.
I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.
His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.
