Quotes About Cynicism

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I'm just cynical.

I don't believe in love at first sight.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

the modern world abounds with heralds of a better future and with debunkers happy to point out that Yeats was silly like us or that Thomas Jefferson may have had a Negro slave as a mistress--and so we are disencumbered of the burden of great lives, set free to be as cynical or desperate as we please.

Education has spread, but intelligence is perpetually retarded by the fertility of the simple. A cynic remarked that "you mustn't enthrone ignorance just because there is so much of it." However, ignorance is not long enthroned, for it lends itself to manipulation by the forces that mold public opinion. It may be true, as Lincoln supposed, that "you can't fool all the people all the time," but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

But, Hubertus, Cayce offers, what if Dorothea is... Yes? He leans forward, palms flat on the table. A vicious lying cunt? Bigend giggles, a deeply alarming sound. Well, he says, we are in the business of advertising, after all. He smiles.

The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.

People don't help much.' He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.

Non sto cercando di demoralizzarvi, cercate di capire. Voglio dire che penso veramente che l'amore sia la cosa più bella del mondo, dopo le pasticche per la tosse. Ma devo anche dire, per l'ennesima volta, che la vita non è giusta. È solo più decente della morte, tutto qui.

He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't.

Oh, believe me, I know the story," he said. "It's a crutch, isn't it? It's a fairy tale. For the weak. It's stupidity. See

Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.

War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.

how to escape predetermination, the mechanical sign of the meal... is not an evasion of a social-gender role; it's not regression. It is an active stance: the rejection of the cynicism that this culture hands us through its food, the creation of an involuted body.

Most grandiose gestures are suspect—the couple who renew their vows just before divorce or the politician who publicly swears he's clean, then enters rehab.

People give Jon shit and claim he breeds cynicism. He's the opposite of cynical. He really cares. And people who watch his show care about politics. That's why you watch it, and that's why you're not watching a Yogi Bear cartoon.

He'd had a dark, angry moment when he thought they might not have fallen for the ad he'd placed in the classified section.

There is no point in arguing if you are not susceptible to reason. Embrace your cynicism. Hug it.

Misfits, con artists, evildoers all had business cards. It was enough to make any man a bona fide misanthrope.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion.