Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating. — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
Life is an endurance race that is always devouring your soul from the inside and out. In the end the race is… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I'm scared that if I let myself be happy for even one moment that the worlds gonna come crashing down. — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“If you aren't being treated in a decent manner, speak up. Sometimes you have to fight the storm of pessimism to reach… — Torron-Lee Dewar Copy Share Image
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust,… — Brando Skyhorse Copy Share Image
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“All our philosophy starts from a false base; it begins always by considering man as an individual, and not as he should… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative.… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival.… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“It is noted that from 1967 to 1995 essays on negative emotions far outnumbered those on positive emotions in the psychological literature.… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
