#cynicism

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I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.


John Lee Hancock


#anger #comes #cynicism #i #i think

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.


Jeremy Paxman


#cynicism #engage #honestly #simply

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.


Kingsley Amis


#history #love #pessimism #truth #art

A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.


Jackson Burnett


#cynicism #determination #fate #future #life-and-living

For a year, Johnny lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own. But that's the way it was. What had been concrete one day proved sand the next; strength was illusion; faith meant shit. So what? So his once-bright world had devolved to cold, wet fog. That was life, the new order. Johnny had nothing to trust but himself, so that's the way he rolled - his path, his choices, and no looking back.


John Hart


#facing-reality #jaded #faith

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.


Jess C. Scott


#control-freaks #control-issues #cynic #cynical #cynical-humor

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.


William Greider


#continue #cynicism #democracy #genuine #i

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.


Christopher Hitchens


#better #comes #cynicism #down #hard

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.


George W. Bush


#come #cynicism #join #politics #polls

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