Quotes About Cynicism

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

I don't believe in Tony Blair.

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

Maybe I am naive, but I don't think talking about the Holocaust with total and complete cynicism is possible for Israeli politicians. It's inevitable that the Holocaust is part of Israeli politics.

I feel like I see so much online of people being cynical about never being able to find love, and it's become, like, cool. You don't need it by any means. You can live without it, and you can totally be self-independent and happy. But you can also be in a great relationship that's rewarding and loving and caring - and that exists.

Una vez que todo da igual, todo está perdido y se ha ido al diablo, ¿por qué no actuar guiados por el más triste e iracundo de los cinismos y sumarse personalmente al bando de los demonios? ¿Por qué no participar plenamente mientras resuena una carcajada burlona en nuestro interior?

Preserve the part of you that's still human. Avoid falling into ecstatic raptures and trying to impose the Light on people when they don't want it. Avoid relapsing into contemptuous cynicism and imagining that you are pure and perfect. That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent. -Gesar

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.

Sometimes I was incredibly frustrated and angry, wondering how these extremes could exist in the same world, let alone in the same church. Sometimes I just got cynical. That was the easiest thing to feel, as cynicism takes very little energy.

If you are looking for sympathy, it's betweem shit and syphillis in the dictionary.

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

Acaso existía el amor verdadero? La vida sería muy triste si no existiera... En realidad, sería insoportable si los desengaños del amor romántico convirtieran a una persona en una cínica incurable.

His usual air of boredom and cynicism discouraged anyone from trying too hard to engage his attention.

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it's not just me. (15)

Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)