Quotes About Cynicism

I only ask you one thing- don't trust nobody

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals . . .

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind.

Din disimulare se nasc necredin?a,nerecuno?tin?a,tr?darea.

El mundo es malo, como se viene diciendo desde hace mucho tiempo: los salvajes se comen unos a otros y los civilizados se engañan mutuamente, y a eso es a lo que damos el nombre del progreso.

The perverse, obtuse, wicked biped race

They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.

Ammu, Chako said, his voice steady and deliberately casual, is it at all possible for you to prevent your washed-up cynicism from completely coloring everything? Silence filled the car like a saturated sponge. 'Washed-up' cut like a knife through a soft thing. The sun shone with a shuddering sigh. This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

is it at all possible for you to prevent your washed-up cynicism from completely coloring everything?

In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.

the modern State's greatest single instrument of oppression, its murderous tax on drink...accounts for nearly all the miseries besetting our once-merry land; football hooliganism, colour prejudice, industrial unrest, cynicism about politicians; the list is endless.

As a matter of fact, the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him.

todo el mundo roba, desde los niños a los viejos —lo cual puede significar simplemente, dado que todo pertenece al Estado, que se han cogido unas pocas frutas—. Trampa infernal, una sociedad que no deja más opción que morir, robar y engañar: esta deseducación, en particular entre los jóvenes, ha permitido que subsista hasta hoy un cinismo y un egoísmo que comprometen las posibilidades de desarrollo de Camboya.

Cynicism, loss of spiritual values, two world wars, the communist disillusionment, psychoanalysis, have forced the 20th century writer to keep his hero uninvolved, detached, burdened with problems relating to life.... If the modern world could be summed up with a single word, it would be 'absurd.' The only truly creative response to this is the comic version of life.

It wasn't fair, but what is? Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, Jesus, that was a great special effect. The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears . . .

I thought you were good, but you are not good. You are just a lying old dirty birdie.

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

With no money, no home and none of my things? That's the biggest bunch of Hallmark greetings-card self-help crap I've ever heard.