It's just so perfuck.

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't…

— Steve Goodier

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light…

— Cecelia Ahern

“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any…

— Mike Carey

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of…

— Mike Birbiglia

No one more cynical than an idealist.

— Tanith Lee

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

— Willie Nelson

It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.

— Richard Quest

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

— Brian D. McLaren

A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.

— Andre Siegfried

I'm not cynical.

— Laura Schlessinger

We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what…

— Jordan Peterson

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…

— Sylvia Plath

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you…

— Colin Quinn

“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the…

— Kehinde Wiley