Cynicism Quotes

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex...

You cynical shit," he told himself. Then he started to weep."Don't be so fucking sentimental," Crake...

To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be abs...

Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can ...

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll...

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, th...

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, n...

I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.

Didn't Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?""The what?""The single congruent aspe...

…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple,...

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exception...

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the ...

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn any...

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assum...

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon da...

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it stil...

... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoy...

I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and fil...

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his d...

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

You're confident he'll have found him, then?""Well, no. I didn't sat that.""If there's one thing I h...

Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, wit...

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and th...

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the...

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off th...

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for ever...

It's strange but as I grow older, I find myself developing more optimism. I keep inching toward the ...

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I...

On revient toujours a son premier amour." It sounds like a cynicism to-day. As if we really meant: "...

Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older pe...

I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.

By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying....

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of coward...

The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a...

I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the won...

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degra...

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

You want to find out a mode of renunciation that will be an escape from pain. I tell you again, ther...

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding ...

There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.

It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should f...

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of t...

A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.

Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demon...

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the olde...

Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the...

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it no...

...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the h...

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You...

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish day...

You're such a cynic," Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute.

We are literally in the heart of Jesus," he said."I thought we were in a church basement, but we are...

Life is serious but art is fun!

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say ...

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despa...

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing...

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicis...

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.