Quotes About Cynicism

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.

Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.

Nowadays LOVE and GOD has become a tool for franking people. So beware of being used.

Life is not kind. Who are you trying to kid, Kendall?" He sighed.

it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one's taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person's love or kindness. Nothing was affirmative, the term "generosity of spirit" applied to nothing, was a cliché, was some kind of bad joke.

it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one's taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person's love or kindness... God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted.

The topic on The Patty Winters Show this morning was Has Patrick Swayze Become Cynical or Not?

Ciba: I thought you were supposed to be some big brave war hero. What about that goddamn gold star you polish every night? Natalya: You know what this shiny piece of tin is, you fucking space cadet? It's the way stupid boys trick other stupid boys into dying for bullshit causes ... and I'm done acting like one of them.

With its clotted jargon, circular reasoning, and smug, debunking cynicism, poststructuralism works only on narrative—on the longer genres of story and novel. It is helpless with lyric poems, where the individual word has enormous power and mystery and where the senses are played upon by rhythm, mood, and dreamlike metaphors.

The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her.

When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is.

I soon found myself becoming indifferent to people. A well cynicism rose in me. Conversations all sounded as if they had been recorded years ago and were being played back on a turntable.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

But you ain't part of it, are you? said Granny conversationally. You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?

But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting Forward, brave comrades! you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Joshua, cynicism is the only reasonable response to the antics of humanity.

His mouth said: Would you like to have dinner tonight? For just the skin of a second, Miss Dearheart was surprised, but not half as surprised as Moist. Then her natural cynicism reinflated. I like to have dinner every night. With you? No. I have things to do. Thank you for asking. No problem, said Moist, slightly relieved.

He reflected briefly that someone up there was watching over him. 'Thanks a lot,' he said bitterly.