Quotes About Cynicism

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

I've grown tired of people impersonating world-weary cynics by intoning the old saying 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' as if it were a new-minted witticism.

My generation feels it has been lied to a great deal.

You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Too often people view idealists as naive.

I am not naive or stupid enough to imagine that people are just going to look at my face and vote for me.

I'm not naive.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

Once you realized that everyone with whom you associated was, potentially, happy to literally stab you in the back, all the wondering just . . . went away.

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

Billy Wilder, Lenny Bruce, Saul

People are douche bags. Many people. Not all. But you know, most. Which is why we destroyed the world.

People are horrible and they lie.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh. VOLTAIRE

Would the young men called to arms laugh and joke and exchange hearty platitudes in imitation of popular fiction, while they waited to be mutilated by the stupidity and arrogance of aged politicians?

Sonea era más cínica. Había observado que las mujeres solían pasar por alto cuando estaban enamoradas porque, en algún momento, el amor tendía a desvanecerse. Era mejor casarse con un hombre que te gustara y en quien confiaras

I didn't know how to define it -- hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? -- this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned.

That must be it, you were compassionate about the little things and cynical about the big things.

In the beginning he had assumed that they did it out of the goodness of their hearts; but now that he had looked into their hearts, he rejected the explanation.

Everywhere I turn I see it—credulity being exploited, and men of practical judgment, watching the game and seeing through it, made hard in their attitude of materialism. How

but they know that's all bait for suckers, and if you could hear them laughing at you behind your back, you'd realize how you're being used.