cynicism

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
11bf451	"By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying.	cynicism love lying passion	Dorothy Parker
d417512	All I ask is one thing, and I'm asking this particularly of young people: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.	cynicism happiness inspirational	Conan O'Brien
72f6588	The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.	cynicism rabbit-angstrom teotwawki	John Updike
332c251	...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.	cynicism god humor	James Scott Bell
36654c3	To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools.	cynicism objectivism philosophy	Matt Taibbi
b54a380	Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?	cynicism metaphor sadness	J.R.R. Tolkien
fc14fa5	It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.	amorality corruption cynicism growing-old hopelessness immorality morality	H. Rider Haggard
f2be030	"One-and-twenty sorts of birds," said Ser Kyle. "One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings," said Ser Maynard. "You have no poetry in your heart, ser." "You have shit upon your shoulder."	cynicism poetry shit	George R.R. Martin
0e0878c	The fucking world is running out of gas.	cynicism rabbit-angstrom	John Updike
e737f9a	Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.	20th-century-literature bliss certainty cynicism czech-literature death death-and-dying endings gallows-humor gifts sleep	Milan Kundera
978b1fb	... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat	cynicism democracy drinking	Terry Pratchett
d290664	The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of , which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of , as saving them trouble & expense. -- . 1929-03-09 diary entry.	cynicism sex	Lawrence Sutin
7bfeedb	"This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't?"	cynicism cynicism-reality joke-life	Dan Simmons
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")"	cynical cynicism home loyalty noir perfidy ptsd soldier strength war weakness world-war-ii ww-ii	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.	cynical cynicism despair despairing music pessimistic purity tragic	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.	cynic cynical cynicism disappointment idealism innocence sodom	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ba7e599	Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.	cynicism enthusiasm personality sentiment	H.G. Wells
0db1689	Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.	cynicism doubt greater heresy	Frank Herbert
3ebec55	It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.	crime cynicism police society-thinking	Raymond Chandler
974a475	Capitalism needs war.	cynicism	Paul Murray
b6d05f7	If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.	cynicism	Zoë Heller
2f93e49	Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.	cynicism youth	Erika Lopez
0cfbe94	His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.	cynicism perseverance vulnerability	Barbara W. Tuchman
d6c5638	His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.	cynicism dancing-with-clara dialogue humor marriage mary-balogh regency regency-romance romance witty-banter	Mary Balogh
04713e1	Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it! There's nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes.	carpe-diem courage curiosity cynicism life living teaching teachings teenagers	Donald Barthelme

"By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying.

Dorothy Parker

d417512

All I ask is one thing, and I'm asking this particularly of young people: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

cynicism happiness inspirational

Conan O'Brien

72f6588

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

cynicism rabbit-angstrom teotwawki

John Updike

332c251

...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.

cynicism god humor

James Scott Bell

36654c3

To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools.

cynicism objectivism philosophy

Matt Taibbi

b54a380

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

cynicism metaphor sadness

J.R.R. Tolkien

fc14fa5

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

amorality corruption cynicism growing-old hopelessness immorality morality

H. Rider Haggard

f2be030

"One-and-twenty sorts of birds," said Ser Kyle. "One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings," said Ser Maynard. "You have no poetry in your heart, ser." "You have shit upon your shoulder."

cynicism poetry shit

George R.R. Martin

0e0878c

The fucking world is running out of gas.

cynicism rabbit-angstrom

John Updike

e737f9a

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

20th-century-literature bliss certainty cynicism czech-literature death death-and-dying endings gallows-humor gifts sleep

Milan Kundera

978b1fb

... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

cynicism democracy drinking

Terry Pratchett

d290664

The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of , which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of , as saving them trouble & expense. -- . 1929-03-09 diary entry.

cynicism sex

Lawrence Sutin

7bfeedb

"This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't?"

cynicism cynicism-reality joke-life

Dan Simmons

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")"

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

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.

cynical cynicism despair despairing music pessimistic purity tragic

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.

cynic cynical cynicism disappointment idealism innocence sodom

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ba7e599

Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.

cynicism enthusiasm personality sentiment

H.G. Wells

0db1689

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

cynicism doubt greater heresy

Frank Herbert

3ebec55

It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.

crime cynicism police society-thinking

Raymond Chandler

974a475

Capitalism needs war.

cynicism

Paul Murray

b6d05f7

If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.

cynicism

Zoë Heller

2f93e49

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.

cynicism youth

Erika Lopez

0cfbe94

His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.

cynicism perseverance vulnerability

Barbara W. Tuchman

d6c5638

His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.

cynicism dancing-with-clara dialogue humor marriage mary-balogh regency regency-romance romance witty-banter

Mary Balogh

04713e1

Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it! There's nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes.

carpe-diem courage curiosity cynicism life living teaching teachings teenagers

Donald Barthelme