Cynicism Quotes | Quotes about Cynicism

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  • Cynicism Quote #1

    [N]obody is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics can not relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they hold tight to the belief that the word [sic] has meaning and, when things go wrong for them, they consequently adopt the inverse attitude.

    Muriel Barbery

  • Cynicism Quote #2

    [Rinda] often worried how she might make the coward she saw [in Remus] into a brave warrior, and someday, a king -- a task which she felt was her responsibility. Rinda had not yet realized that sometimes courage is the same thing as folly and that sometimes a skepticism bordering on her blindness to her brother's strengths was a result of her own sensitivity.

    Kaoru Kurimoto

  • Cynicism Quote #3

    [T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans. This fracture comes with a steep price: in today's toxic atmosphere, liberals are no less cynical, shortsighted, and parochial than anyone else, and they understand their fellow-Americans just as badly as they themselves are understood. When liberals look at red-state voters, they see either a mob of pious know-nothings or the insensible victims of militarism and class warfare. Yet.... [such people] defy fixed categories, which means that they have to be figured out the hard way--on their own terms.

    George Packer

  • Cynicism Quote #4

    [we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.

    [we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

    James Branch Cabell

  • Cynicism Quote #5

    …a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...

    Sharon Kay Penman

  • Cynicism Quote #6

    A man may have ‘his moment,’ and that moment endure for decades, or only for the few seconds it takes for a bullet to travel across a courtyard to the balcony upon which he stands as he exhorts his people to follow him.

    Ralph E. Vaughan

  • Cynicism Quote #7

    A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

    Reza Aslan

  • Cynicism Quote #8

    A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

    François de La Rochefoucauld

  • Cynicism Quote #9

    A thousand years from now nobody is
    going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is
    right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.

    Jackson Burnett

  • Cynicism Quote #10

    A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.

    Eliezer Yudkowsky

  • Cynicism Quote #11

    Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish days when our simple hearts were full of truth, and faith, and reverence! Ah, those foolish days of noble longings and of noble strivings! And oh, these wise, clever days when we know that money is the only prize worth striving for, when we believe in nothing else but meanness and lies, when we care for no living creature but ourselves!

    Jerome K. Jerome

  • Cynicism Quote #12

    All men have a natural fear of making a mistake--by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too ill of a person is perhaps not feared, at least not in the same degree as the other.

    Søren Kierkegaard

  • Cynicism Quote #13

    Amory: I love you.
    Rosalind: I love you- now.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Cynicism Quote #14

    An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

    Nathan McCall

  • Cynicism Quote #15

    And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.

    Lord Dunsany

  • Cynicism Quote #16

    At first, one only recognizes particular instances to be worth of critique; critique appears synonymous with rejection, implying deficiency in the object. Over time, one discovers that everything warrants critique. This can produce cynicism: nothing is above reproach, nothing is pure, therefore nothing has value. But followed through to its logical conclusion, this insight inspires a profound optimism: if everything can be critiqued, then no matter how bleak things are, there is always a way to improve them. Those who comprehend this can pass beyond the binary of approval and disapproval to identify the conflicting currents within any subject of inquiry. There are sides to take inside every position, as well as between them.

    CrimethInc.

  • Cynicism Quote #17

    Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

    Bob Dylan

  • Cynicism Quote #18

    Better not to find out whether or not the rumors
    are true, I say. Better find the other bastard and skin
    him.

    Angelo Tsanatelis

  • Cynicism Quote #19

    Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.

    Ambrose Bierce

  • Cynicism Quote #20

    But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.

    Laurell K. Hamilton

  • Cynicism Quote #21

    But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating
    conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

    James Branch Cabell

  • Cynicism Quote #22

    Can you ever solve disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.

    Max Brooks

  • Cynicism Quote #23

    Capitalism needs war.

    Paul Murray

  • Cynicism Quote #24

    Ce sper eu e sa fac de ras lumea literara. Sa rad pe cat pot de netrebnicii astia lingusitori, adunati ca intr-un musuroi, care se pupa-n fund unul pe altul si isi ling ranile in timp ce, de fapt, isi pun bete roate reciproc.

    Haruki Murakami

  • Cynicism Quote #25

    Cressida: My lord, will you be true?
    Troilus: Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault:
    Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,
    I with great truth catch mere simplicity;
    Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,
    With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.
    Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit
    Is plain and true; there's all the reach of it.

    William Shakespeare

  • Cynicism Quote #26

    Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

    Douglas G. Brinkley

  • Cynicism Quote #27

    Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it. Telling the truth is as natural to them now as when they were children. The fact that no one cares to listen is inconsequential.

    What curmudgeons don’t realize, however, is that most people can’t handle the truth they force on everyone within earshot–not when it comes from others. For the truth is something we need to discover for ourselves, each in our own heart, each in our own time, each in our own way. The truth–your truth, my truth–is something we need to hear directly from God, preferably on long walks by the sea.

    But curmudgeons don’t care. Most annoying of all, they don’t understand that no one appreciates the absurdities of the human condition flung in their faces–reason enough for them to bite their tongues, but they seldom do.

    Lionel Fisher

  • Cynicism Quote #28

    Cynicism creates a numbness toward life.

    Cynicism begins with a wry assurance that everyone has an angle. Behind every silver lining is a cloud. The cynic is always observing, critiquing, but never engaging, loving, and hoping.

    ...

    To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being in the know, cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It leads to bitterness that can deaden and even destroy the spirit.

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    Cynicism begins, oddly enough, with too much of the wrong kind of faith, with naive optimism or foolish confidence. At first glance, genuine faith and naive optimism appear identical since both foster confidence and hope.But the similarity is only surface deep.Genuine faith comes from knowing my heavenly Father loves, enjoys, and cares for me. Naive optimism is groundless. It is childlike trust without the loving Father.

    ...

    Optimism in the goodness of people collapses when it confronts the dark side of life.

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    Shattered optimism sets us up for the fall into defeated weariness and, eventually, cynicism. You'd think it would just leave us less optimistic, but we humans don't do neutral well. We go from seeing the bright side of everything to seeing the dark side of everything. We feel betrayed by life.

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    The movement from naive optimism to cynicism is the new American journey. In naive optimism we don't need to pray because everything is under control. In cynicism we can't pray because everything out of control, little is possible.

    With the Good Shepherd no longer leading us through the valley of the shadow of death, we need something to maintain our sanity. Cynicism's ironic stance is a weak attempt to maintain a lighthearted equilibrium in a world gone mad.

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    Without the Good Shepherd, we are alone in a meaningless story. Weariness and fear leave us feeling overwhelmed, unable to move. Cynicism leaves us doubting, unable to dream. The combination shuts down our hearts, and we just show up for life, going through the motions.

    Paul E. Miller

  • Cynicism Quote #29

    Cynicism is a disease. Optimism is the cure.

    Aakashvani

  • Cynicism Quote #30

    Cynicism is idealism turned inside out. It stems from an expectation unrealized and a promise perverted. That is so much of Washington today in a nutshell.

    Mark Leibovich

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