Cynicism Quotes · Page 12

There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes a-tappin.

— Roseanne Barr

the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

— Anais Nin

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

— George Berkeley

“... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“I know life is not rainbows and butterflies, but I’d rather die delusional than being a mature cynic.”

— Abhaidev

“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

— Thomas Sowell

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

— Anonymous

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not…

— Ken Burns

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets…

— Caroline Polachek

“Better not to find out whether or not the rumors are true, I say. Better find the other bastard and skin him.”

— Angelo Tsanatelis

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals…

— Peter Senge

There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're…

— Artie Shaw

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a…

— Helen Keller

“Did you have friend?" "I've read about them, but I don't believe they exist." "Your cynicism is amazing.”

— Jodi Meadows

I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an…

— Andrew W.K

Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically…

— Wole Soyinka

About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's…

— Alex Kingston

“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind…

— Dave Sitek

“I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten…

— John Fowles

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that…

— Erica Jong

There are many different kinds of doubt. When we doubt the future, we call it worry. When doubt other people we call…

— Rick Warren

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you…

— Leon Trotsky

What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can…

— Chuck Klosterman

“Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live…

— Ben Okri

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

— Anonymous

... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

— Joseph Girzone

“Doing things for others gives you a lovely glow." "So does port," I said cynically.”

— Dodie Smith

“Every rock-thrower needs something to stand on to have any accuracy or do any damage with the rocks.”

— Dick Keyes

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

“Pessimism, cynicism and fear will only lead to a very small life. Don’t live small.”

— Neil Abramson

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

— Charles Dance

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

— John Lee Hancock

I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

— Marianne Williamson

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not…

— Anonymous

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

— Merle Shain

“I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.”

— Bauvard

“... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat”

— Terry Pratchett