#cynicism

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster. ↗

#humour #life #melancholy #the-art-of-wishing #truth

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

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

— Kevin Costner

#come #cynicism #dismiss #going #try

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

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. ↗

— George Meredith

#intellectual

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#cynicism #only #penetrating #success #valid

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. ↗