cynical

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
d8578b1	"They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody."	paranoid dialogue cynical	Iain M. Banks
0a27be6	If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.	people cynical nietzsche negative	Cory Doctorow
ce9e6fa	There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.	humour love ugly-truths cynical	Paulo Coelho
aefd29f	"Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come back to in the intervals between a greater love - the only real love - the lust for riches buried in the earth, that are your own if you can find them. Perhaps you do not call it home, even to yourself. Perhaps you call them 'my house,' 'my woman,' What if there was another 'my house,' 'my woman,' before this one? It makes no difference. This woman is enough for now. Perhaps the guns sounded too loud at Anzio or at Omaha Beach, at Guadalcanal or at Okinawa. Perhaps when they stilled again some kind of strength had been blasted from you that other men still have. And then again perhaps it was some kind of weakness that other men still have. What is strength, what is weakness, what is loyalty, what is perfidy? The guns taught only one thing, but they taught it well: of what consequence is life? Of what consequence is a man? And, therefore, of what consequence if he tramples love in one place and goes to find it in the next? The little moment that he has, let him be at peace, far from the guns and all that remind him of them. So the man who once was Bill Taylor has come back to his house, in the dusk, in the mountains, in Anahuac. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")"	war strength cynical soldier perfidy world-war-ii ww-ii weakness noir home cynicism loyalty ptsd	Cornell Woolrich
20216cf	Music -- good music, great music -- had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses' ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something.	music despairing pessimistic tragic purity cynical cynicism despair	Julian Barnes
596f2c0	I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.	idealism sodom cynic cynical innocence cynicism disappointment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
444fb2c	The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.	lying lies life rule cynical rules	Jennifer Crusie
9d645e6	Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.	sleep deams false cynical fake lie nightmare	Rebecca McNutt
6b6435f	Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.	lying lies humanity cynical lips	Jennifer Crusie

"They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody."

Iain M. Banks

0a27be6

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

people cynical nietzsche negative

Cory Doctorow

ce9e6fa

There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

humour love ugly-truths cynical

Paulo Coelho

aefd29f

"Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come back to in the intervals between a greater love - the only real love - the lust for riches buried in the earth, that are your own if you can find them. Perhaps you do not call it home, even to yourself. Perhaps you call them 'my house,' 'my woman,' What if there was another 'my house,' 'my woman,' before this one? It makes no difference. This woman is enough for now. Perhaps the guns sounded too loud at Anzio or at Omaha Beach, at Guadalcanal or at Okinawa. Perhaps when they stilled again some kind of strength had been blasted from you that other men still have. And then again perhaps it was some kind of weakness that other men still have. What is strength, what is weakness, what is loyalty, what is perfidy? The guns taught only one thing, but they taught it well: of what consequence is life? Of what consequence is a man? And, therefore, of what consequence if he tramples love in one place and goes to find it in the next? The little moment that he has, let him be at peace, far from the guns and all that remind him of them. So the man who once was Bill Taylor has come back to his house, in the dusk, in the mountains, in Anahuac. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")"

war strength cynical soldier perfidy world-war-ii ww-ii weakness noir home cynicism loyalty ptsd

Cornell Woolrich

20216cf

Music -- good music, great music -- had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses' ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something.

music despairing pessimistic tragic purity cynical cynicism despair

Julian Barnes

596f2c0

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

idealism sodom cynic cynical innocence cynicism disappointment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

444fb2c

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

lying lies life rule cynical rules

Jennifer Crusie

9d645e6

Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.

sleep deams false cynical fake lie nightmare

Rebecca McNutt

6b6435f

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

lying lies humanity cynical lips

Jennifer Crusie