Quotes About Cynicism

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

I've been let down so many times; being hurt doesn't phase me any more.

I think negative almost about everything jus to avoid being hurt from sh...

Tired of being lied to so I guess ima have to start thinking like a boy again. fu.. emotions!

Every time people are being positive about something, there is always those few people that have to throw salt in the situation.

Choosing to live a life in a cynical negative matter, doubting every opportunity, and doubting every God-given ability that you possess, is in effect choosing to live a life bound by the chains of mental slavery.

most of what passed as cleverness was only archness and spite.

I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words.

T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.

Non ho mai conosciuto una persona intelligente che amasse per davvero o avesse fiducia nel prossimo. Al massimo ha provato compassione.

If you find yourself in conversation with someone you know and that person brings up someone you both know and before he says another word you mutter, "That guy's a fucking asshole," you might be a little bitter. If you find yourself dismissing universally acclaimed landmark achievements, saying, for example, "The Godfather is an okay movie," you might be bitter.

And then one goes on to the next. Because love is all rot, you know

trust no one, everything breaks, nothing works as advertised, and if anything can go wrong, it will.

Some people would say bullshit is the grease that gets people through life," Weather said. "Other people," Letty said. "Not me.

the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked.