Cynicism Quote by Leonid Andreyev

“I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.”

— Shannon Hale

“However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.”

— Rachel Ward

“It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Even the things that showed him his path seemed to point at what a fool he was. Another of life's ironies? Or just fate's…

— Ruth Frances Long

“Or maybe, in my gut, I felt like I was missing out on something. I knew there was more to life than a pixelated…

— Katie Kacvinsky

“Slowly he had learned that there is a world beneath the visible one, and that people, some people at least, have a different life,…

— Marcus Sedgwick

“...she wondered how he had gained such a calmness, a belief that every single piece of the universe fit neatly into another one.”

— Kevin Wilson

“The world seemed somehow different when one was lying down. Darker, more dangerous ... And in that moment, as he slowly closed the distance…

— Julia Quinn

“Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.”

— Priscilla Cummings

“This life had always been my routine but now it felt like a cage.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“It was a privileged existence, but also a cage, beautifully decorated, but locked tight always.”

— Amber Newberry

“He was so different from her, yet in his presence she felt the possibility of another kind of life, a life she had never…

— Nicholas Sparks