#cynical

Si al final mis problemas no eran solubles, cuando menos serían adulterables. ↗

— Xavier Velasco

#humor #problems #humor

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#life #truth #life

Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route. ↗

— Meghan Ciana Doidge

#insightful #reality #survival #life

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life #life-lessons #wine #life

This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#cynicism #cynicism-reality #joke-life #life

alcohol played the midwife ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#cynical-humor #life

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#marriage #marriage

Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure. ↗

— Frédéric Beigbeder

#beauty

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#sexism #women #men

- "They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them. ↗

— Iain Banks

#cynical #dialogue #paranoid #cynicism