“Bah, cynics," said Dr. Meescham. "Cynics are people who are afraid to believe.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. — David Landes Copy Share Image
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes… — Paula Nelson Copy Share Image
“shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“As Proverbs 18:21 points out, life and death are in the power of the tongue. If you lend credence to a continual… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
“If division and negitivity is overcoming goodness and if darkness is overtaking the light...don't blame mother nature. She's just basking in her… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“Immune to the blandishments of religions, countries, families, and whatever else that—with a smattering of emotive images and strains of maudlin music—can… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“Protect yourself against the venomous attacks of jealous and envious people by eliminating them from your life. Whether it’s family, friends, or… — Dwaun S. Cox Copy Share Image
“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
“Preserve the part of you that's still human. Avoid falling into ecstatic raptures and trying to impose the Light on people when… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“You face the reality, whether it’s hopeful or hopeless. What’s your alternative? To lie down and die? Sometimes people ask me, are… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned. — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If you think of failure in your mind, you are one step farther away from success. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I do everything with a purpose, and I don't really pay attention to the negativity. — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know. — K'naan Copy Share Image
“The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the… — Jennifer Bosworth Copy Share Image
“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford 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
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to bring a child into this world for its own sake.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Open you eyes to the world around you.. Block out the screams of pessimism.. Release your inhibitions!” — Nike Thaddeus Copy Share Image
If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
