Cynic Quote by Mary Balogh

“A cynic is just a wounded romantic.”

— Pamela Jaye Smith

“Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.”

— Arnold Arre

“Beneath every cynic there's a frustrated romantic.”

— Peter Bishop

“It was stupid and difficult, it was complicated and exhausting to love in such a way, but it was wonderful. Wonderful was the dark…

— Hermann Hesse

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless romantic…

— Donna Tartt

“Sometimes it saddened her to think that she’d never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out…

— Nicholas Sparks

“It was always a sad pleasure, like making love to a beautiful woman, but not to the woman you love.”

— Barry Eisler

“Here in this room, with our bodies entwined, I felt that I could trust this fierce love that had shattered and rebuilt my life.…

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish…

— Roxy Writer

“True, romantic love was real. Even if I'd never been able to feel it for myself.”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

“Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.”

— E.M. Forster