Cynicism quotations

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◆ I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?

- Kenneth Cain99

◆ There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.

- Niccolò Machiavelli99

◆ Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.

- Susie Derkins99

◆ Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

- Leon Trotsky99

◆ All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

- Dorothy Parker99

◆ ...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.

- James Scott Bell99

◆ Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

- Chris Wooding99

◆ Unless I'm at a wedding, I don't like veiled threats.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

- Lily Tomlin99

◆ If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

- Jenny Holzer99

◆ Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot'. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.

- Anthon St. Maarten99

◆ Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

- Peter M. Senge99

◆ Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

- Glen Cook99

◆ I fight cynicism. It's too easy. It's really boring. It's much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren't as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.

- Ewan McGregor99

◆ The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

- Tom Waits99