#cynicism

It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish. ↗

— Derek Landy

#cynicism #helping-others #perspective #religion #selfishness

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#hard #heroism #life #life

The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#life #life

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#nothing

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. ↗

— Jamie Whyte

#cynicism #logic #journalist

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#cynicism #politics #cynicism

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#cynic #existence #suicide #cynicism

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations. ↗

— Peter M. Senge

#idealism #cynicism

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#cynicism

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic. ↗

— Colum McCann

#naive #cynicism