Cynic Quotes

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion.

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,but the moving ever shall stay.

Basava

I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of mirth and despair. Inherent inconsistences mark me as part of nature, which is neither cruel nor fair, or reliable or predictable.

Kilroy J. Oldster

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.