Quotes About Cynicism

I don't believe you," said Conté. "I wouldn't fucking believe you if you told me my name was Conté. I wouldn't believe you if you told me fire was hot and water was wet.

My, you are in a sad state. You believe you've been poisoned?" "No," said Locke with a cough. "I fell down some fucking stairs. What's it look like?

If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.

Glorious Triune God, lately my attitude about the American political process has been brewing in me a cesspool of irritation and cynicism—a sure indication that I need the gospel to center me. So I begin this day reminding myself of exactly who you are and what you are up to in your world, as revealed in the Scriptures. Nothing has greater power to convict me of my sin and help me regain perspective.

Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.

I sometimes wonder if our world leaders are very smart and just putting us on, or very stupid and mean it.

Warum wimmelt es nicht von Büchern, die Hohn und Spott über diese jämmerliche Welt, das sinnlose All, die gewalttätige, niederträchtige Menschheit ausgießen und die ganzen lumpigen Zustände der Lächerlichkeit preisgeben? Merkwürdig, Millionen von Menschen sterben jedes Jahr mit diesen Gefühlen im Herzen. Weshalb schreibe ich nicht so ein Buch? Weil ich eine Familie zu ernähren habe. Deshalb.

He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy. Alles ist Scheisse, he announced. All is shit.

You may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.

Ei accept? numai ceea ce tocmai le iese în cale, ceea ce îi m?guleÅŸte ÅŸi le este cunoscut. Sunt asemenea câinilor: "C?ci câinii latr? ÅŸi ei la toÅ£i cei pe care nu-i cunosc".

Youthful dreams are precious things. They ought not to be dashed as foolish and unrealistic just because they are young dreams. Innocence ought not to be destroyed from any callous conviction that a realistic sort of cynicism is better.

It is impossible to recapture innocence once it has been exposed for the illusion it is, she said. Illusion? He frowned. Why should innocence be more unreal, more untrue, than cynicism? I am not cynical, she said. But no, I could not go back.

Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics...