Cynical Quotes

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

Anthony Liccione

True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.

Jewel

People will drive by their high school ten years down the road, just so they can pretend that thinking "not much has changed" is actually true. When really, everything has changed. The air smells the same, but the roads have cracked more. The roads have cracked so much they now look like the skin on a crocodile's back. And all the fields, green in the summers, golden in the autumns, have all been paved over with new reasons to never come back.

To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and even after she's gone she'll still weigh you down. To all the women: stay away from us men. We don't know anything about you, despite what we try to convince you of.

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.

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

A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go.

Anthony Liccione

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

I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.