Quotes About Cynicism

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually," Wilson said.

He had know guys all his life who gave him that feeling. Even as a kid. People who were always lying, even when they didn't have to.

When I was a kid my ol' man give me a haltered heifer an' says take her down an git her serviced. An' the fella says, I done it, an' ever' time since then when I hear a business man talkin' about service, I wonder who's gettin' screwed.

Joseph habitually scowled at furniture, expecting it to be impertinent, mischievous, or dusty.

1. Don't believe nobody. The bastards are after you. 2. Keep your mouth shut. Don't stick your neck out. 3. Keep your ears open. When they make a slip, grab on to it and wait. 4. Everybody's a son of a bitch and whatever you do they got it coming. 5. Go at everything roundabout. 6. Don't never trust no dame about nothing. 7. Put your faith in dough. Everybody wants it. Everybody will sell out for it.

Rabbit realised the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporary arrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of money. You just passed through, and they milked you for what you were worth, mostly when you were young and gullible.

Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He

Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.

The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

Sometimes trusting is what breaks you and believing is what destroys you!

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Trusting, is for the people that haven't had their hearts broken.

For as fashionable as cynicism always was, the truth was that when it came to basic human responsibility, people rose to the challenge. Pretty much always. As many times as Hell had been created, history stood as indisputable proof that the mass of humanity was good. People built more than they burned, created more than they destroyed, not by a little but by a massive surplus. To know it, all you needed to remember was that we had started as chimpanzees—and then look around.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

I know her in the biblical senseand when I say that, I mean I don't believe a word she says.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.