Quotes About Cynicism

I'm thinking of starting my own talk radio show. I'll spout simplistic opinions for hours on end, ridicule anyone who disagrees with me, and generally foster divisiveness, cynicism, and a lower level of public dialog!

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

Remember, there are neither honest people nor friends anymore. Still less anyone knowledgeable

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

He would lean back in his chair and match the tips of his fingers together in a little steeple and tell me why I couldn't sleep and why I couldn't read and why I couldn't eat and why everything people did seemed so silly because they only died in the end.

16 But cynicism is always the indication of a mental chaos, or at least a mental disjunction and lack of unity.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of genius, I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.

mi maligna manera de entender el mundo me ayudaba a reirme por lo bajo...

ya ves, resulta todavía peor, te aparecés como el reverso de mi esperanza, cínicamente me golpeás la ventana y te quedás ahí esperando

The guy could sell sunlamps in a cancer ward.

I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken out of that.

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

I wake up every day trying to hold on to my innocence. That is not a thing that has to do with age. That has to do with the life that you want to have and the perspective that you want to have on life. I do not want to become jaded or cynical.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

I was a bit of a humour black sheep. I would make these jokes full of irony and dark cynicism and that just didn't work when I was seven, people did not laugh.

Cynicism is the besetting and venial fault of declining youth, and disillusionment its last illusion.

no sería bueno que los mexicanos dejaran de creer en unos hombres que en su mayoría sólo han asesinado, robado y castrado las conciencias?

A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.

That's because Wit is an asshole

I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid