Quotes About Cynicism

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

You want sympathy, you can find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.

Falconer walked up and said, "I just want to say right now that this is the stupidest shit I've ever been involved in.

he thought that human beings are, by and large, rather nasty. They can rarely be bothered to help one another, he noted, but are quick to seize any opportunity to do each other down.9 Moreover there was a bias in the world of which he had become acutely aware: most people were ignorant, and nothing provoked the hostility of the ignorant as much as people who knew more than they did.10 Although

What I'am learning is the world laughs through its ass every day, then just lies double-time when shit goes down. It's like we're on a Pritikin diet of fucken lies. I mean - what kind of fucken life is this?

The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle

The Trusting Heart, Dr. Williams describes how this research evolved.) In particular, the factors most toxic to the heart are self-involvement, hostility, and cynicism.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough.

They're crooked as corkscrews, the lot of them!

Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.

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

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

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.

After that, we weren't the same anymore. We'd become men. Disillusioned and cynical. Slightly bitter too. We had nothing. We hadn't even learned a trade. No future. Nothing but life. But life without a future is worse than no life at all.

All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.