Quotes About Cynicism

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!

He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too clearly the evil and falsity of life to be capable of taking a serious part in it.

En la "tierra", precisamente ne esta tierra —digo señalando la campiña— no existe la verdad, todo es mal y mentira

Everything presents itself to me, in the coarsest, most loathsome light.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows

Yes, I do read books but only for one purpose: to learn how to hate man and to hold him in contempt.

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.

If you feel yourself responding cynically when someone relates that 'Dylan's returned to protest songs' as if it's exciting news, it just may be that your instincts are in healthy working order.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

Fuck it, it was stupid. Theories about life were always bullshit.

Who believes in Aslan nowadays?

Trump's behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

I have no use for Valentine's Day, with its limited menu and cramped seating.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

La persuasión efectiva requiere interpretar las creencias y las expectativas, los valores y las emociones de tu audiencia. Puedes hacerlo cínicamente. Puedes usar la retórica para expresar tu punto de vista e incluso para cambiar el mundo. Pero con frecuencia el objetivo «es la gente, no las ideas», como dice David.

I wanted to escape from the cynical attitude of life where an action was deplored only when it did not bring material advantage.

I drank it and I said, 'It isn't like it seems to be.' - 'I know. It never is,' he said