Quotes About Cynicism

Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists.

Postmodern irony and cynicism has become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving.

For several months after 9/11, people heard it wherever they went, and then a cynicism seemed to take hold with some who mocked it and said it should be changed because it was too warlike or just expressed hatred of the country in general and turned their backs on any patriotic display.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law.

Timon will to the woods, where he shall find Th' unkindest beast more kinder than mankind. The gods confound - hear me, you good gods all - Th' Athenians both within and out that wall! And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow To the whole race of mankind, high and low! Amen.

You treat everybody like they are your friend. It ain't that way in the world, Forrest. A lot of people ain't your friend. They are just lookin at you the way a banker looks at somebody comes in for a loan—How I'm gonna fleece this rube? That's the way it is, Forrest. That's the way it is.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Eres un pesimista, ves siempre el vaso medio vacio! -No, lo veo medio lleno pero de veneno.

If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

being a misanthropist has its saving grace—people can never disappoint you.

Why suffer the slings and arrows when I can just wet my nose, insert it into the light socket, and never have to deal with anxiety, heartache, or my mother's boiled chicken ever again?

The ideology of personal growth, superficially optimistic, radiates a profound despair and resignation. It is the faith of those without faith.

In fact, in her experience, the more honest a person seemed, the more dishonest they usually were.

Si prefiero las mujeres a los hombres es porque ellas tienen la ventaja de ser mas desequilibradas, es decir, mas complicadas, mas perspicaces y mas cínicas, por no hablar de esta misteriosa superioridad que confiere una esclavitud milenaria

He believed me, and I was overwhelmed by bitterness when I saw that he did. My tears stopped; I told myself that it was quite easy to deceive those whose interest lay elsewhere.

Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

Shake an aphorism, he said, and in most cases a lie falls out, leaving only a banality.)

All I know for sure right now is that my sister gave me a small fraction of the truth." "I don't want to sound like a cynical lawyer," he said. "But I think that's all anybody ever gives anyone.

Before they kill her. Alice is no innocent in this world. Just as well. Look how the innocent end; used by the sin-sodden and the cynical, pulped to their purpose and ground under their heels.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Love is stupid. All we do is break one another´s hearts.¨ ¨Yeah,¨ I say, thinking again of Cardan. page 31-32

I hate everyone. I just don't hate them enough.

Nice things don't happen in storybooks," Taryn says. "Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.