Cynic Quote by Sharon Kay Penman

“Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!’ And somehow we’ve…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The death of awe in our culture has left us with an oddly credulous cynicism. We are cynical, suspicious of established government, education, technology,…

— Dennis E. Johnson

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real…

— Terry Pratchett

“The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints…

— Thomas Malthus

“We don't know much about our hero before 325 BCE-he just sort of materialized out of thin air like a face-melting UFO or a…

— Ben Thompson

What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen,…

— James Hilton

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill…

— John Hurt

“His cynicism - a veteran's cynicism - was a thing that disturbed him all the time. It seemed to him after the war that…

— David Guterson

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion.…

— Patrick Süskind

“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the…

— Eleanor Catton

And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful…

— Gautama Buddha