Quotes About Cynicism

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

the platitudes of Americanism were horseshit. Number one, they didn't work. Number two, they weren't true. Number three, the people giving voice to them didn't believe them either.

Her long periods of intense concentration began to be punctuated by bouts of directionless daydreaming, sudden explosions of feeling. At such times Shakespeare was too dangerous to be read closely—Hamlet whispered truths too cruel to be borne, every word in Lear hooked in flesh and could not be dislodged. As for Wilde, Hobbes, Schopenhauer . . . even cynicism, Marya saw, can't save you.

misinterpreting her silence for a broken heart, her cynicism about men for depression, ir despondency [...]

misinterpreting her silence for a broken heart, her cynicism about men for depression, or despondency [...]

Never trust anyone. You are always alone, and betrayal is inevitable.

If you aren't a living example of 'the devil quoting scripture.'

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

Good fortune, contentment, peace, happiness have never been able to deceive me for long. I expected the worst, and I was right. So much for the dream of man.

Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?

curmudgeonliness

Call me jaded, but I didn't see then and I don't see now how hugging, and counting and focusing on a flickering candle or, God help me, a favorite stuffed animal, can possibly make you forget the nine pounds of wriggling human forcing its way out of you the same way it got into you nine months-and nine pounds-ago. As the scientific theory goes, what goes in must come out. Eventually. Somehow. And the coming-out part is never as much fun as the going in part.

And your new employers?" asked the don. "Every bed has lice," said Keller. "Only the spoon," replied the don, "knows the pot's sorrows.

Do with him what you will. I'm not going to cry over a little spilled blood. Just make certain none of it splashes on me.

On se sert même du cynisme pour ne pas crever de honte.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Yeah, right," Minho said. "And Frypan's gonna start having little babies, Winston'll get rid of his monster acne, and Thomas here'll actually smile for once." Thomas turned to Minho and exaggerated a fake smile. "There, you happy?" "Dude," he responded. "You are one ugly shank.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

God damn every one of you two-faced motherfuckers.

I think more everyday heroes are just what America needs ~ especially right now. Collectively, they could be a powerful antidote to the cynicism, self-absorption, and greed that are weakening our nation. At the same time, whenever someone chooses to do the right thing, to tackle the tough job, or to stand up for what he or she truly believes in, that person quietly becomes a force for good, as well as a role model for others.

As for the opposite of kindness, which I have known well, it deserves no name.

If were all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down.

If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down