#cynic

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#believing #cynic #gone #knowing #nothing

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#cynicism

To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It leads to a creeping bitterness that can deaden and even destroy the spirit... A praying life is just the opposite. It engaged evil. It doesn't take no for an answer. The psalmist was in God's face, hoping, dreaming, asking. Prayer is feisty. Cynicism, on the other hand, merely critiques. It is passive, cocooning itself from the passions of the great cosmic battle we are engaged in. It is without hope. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#prayer #dreams

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#beneath #cynic #every #injured #lies

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#cynical #everybody #everything #irish #lack

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#basis #constructed #cynical #day-to-day #day-to-day basis

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#faulty #ought #sees #things #vision

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#affair #because #build #business #cliffs

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#comic #cynical #disrespect #disrespectful #doing

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement. ↗

— Ken Burns

#based #choices #cynicism #disengagement #fear