Quotes About Cynicism

I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting too cynical and things just don't start seeming like stories, and things don't seem exciting anymore. It's like, 'Yep, this is my fourth caucus, and I know everybody and know everything and I am writing just to impress my friends.'

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

I'm a total pessimist.

I'm a pessimist.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

This is what old guys do. They get dark and pessimistic.

The '80s have been so much doom and gloom. We've become very pessimistic.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always felt like an Old Testament Jeremiah or Cassandra from ancient Greece. I want to run down the streets warning people.

Psychologists even have a term for this: they talk about 'mean world syndrome'. People who have just seen too much of the news have become more cynical, more pessimistic, more anxious, even more depressive. So, yeah, I think that is something you need to be wary of.

Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.

Your sadness is because of the thorn of desire in your heart. If you don`t take notice of it, it will turn into sarcasm, cynicism, frustration, and anger. You need to pull it out and throw it, then you will feel uplifted and happy.

Money is lonely anyway. When you got it, people always want it. You don't want to be used; sometimes you don't know where a cat is comin' from.

A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

I look at all good things with a bit of a dark lens, I suppose, especially with something like love.

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

I remember when I was a kid, whenever you'd see cartoons cross over with each other, it always ranged from a delightful, magical surprise to a cynical, annoying cash grab.

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.