“Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.” — Erika Lopez Copy Share Image
I know how tempting such cynicism may be. But I still think the cynics are wrong. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism. — Howard Frank Mosher Copy Share Image
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed... — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“A loner, by nature, burdens no one with their existence. By avoiding entanglements with others, they cause no harm. We are extremely… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Have compassion for everyone you meet even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a… — Dr. Katinka van der Merwe Copy Share Image
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
.. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Obviously, there’s no way of making money that doesn’t hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
You happened to me,You scare me to death, you know. When you stormed into my life, you turned everything inside out. You… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Remember what we’re fighting for.” “I’m trying. Today I helped to kill Angel Porrua. What was he fighting for?” “Are you serious?… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Why is it we don’t intervene in the bureaucracy?” asks Chris Bobel, the gender studies scholar, who has noted that many young… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
It takes the youth, really; they're the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn't be the old geezers, but the signs… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“When we try to understand something, more often than not, we kill it, and now I can feel the dangers of this… — Martin Page Copy Share Image
I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“What's so praiseworthy about entrusting your sense of what's right to someone else?” — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned. — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman. — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image
Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
“Divide and rule, weaken and conquer, love and enslave, these are three tenets of politics” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
