“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 have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed... — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism. — Howard Frank Mosher 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
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
“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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
.. 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
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
“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
“When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
“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
“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to… — Aldous Huxley 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
“What's so praiseworthy about entrusting your sense of what's right to someone else?” — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another. — Douglas Horton 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
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
