Quotes About Cynicism

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

Cynicism means the conduit to the soul has a great kink in it, like a garden hose in which nothing flows in either direction.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

I get the feeling that my songs aren't that dark. There is a cynicism but humour also - it's not depression upon depression upon depression. It's a blend.

People are dumb. I'll never get over how dumb people are.

I'm always looking for a reason to disregard.

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen

I have been told I always look at the dark underbelly of tomorrow. Possibly. You're less likely to be disappointed that way.

cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods.

To all pimps and whores a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea.

If you don't see misery you don't believe in it. You can give anyone pain from a distance.

If you don't see misery you don't believe in it

Quotes are for people who like broad generalizations

its contemporary metropolitan setting, its self-conscious 'coolness', its underlying preoccupation with the surface appearance of things and an accompanying cynicism and bleakness as audiences witnessed the machinations of its characters. Yet

Right. I can tell from the bat wings and the leeches that you three are just all happy-smiles and rainbows.

I can't stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there's no river.

Hell, no. I can't stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there's no river.

People haven't stopped believing in love. They haven't stopped wanting to be in love. They just don't believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love, and falling in love, but they know now that...they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin.

People haven't stopped believing in love. They haven't stopped wanting to be in love. They just don't believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love, and falling in love, but they know how that...they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin.

Non sopporto i politici, è gente che ti promette un ponte anche se non ci sono fiumi.

A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there's no river.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.

The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't mean scepticism, criticism, querying, but I do mean cynicism.

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.