#cynic

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#cynicism #derive #dismal #fairly #hard

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? ↗

— Eliza Cook

#cynic #down #fairy #frown #knock

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#disappointments #full #naive

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hypocrisy #outside

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#come #cynicism #dismiss #going #try

Cynicism is intellectual treason. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#intellectual #treason

That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules. ↗

— Mike Carey

#cynicism #religion

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out. ↗

— Leonid Andreyev

#death #despair #life #death

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues. ↗

— John M. Ford

#contemporary #cynical #deal #disconnected #enough

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#before #beginning #cynical #easy #electricity