Cynicism Quotes
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In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint. Patience. A genuine balance of confidence and insecurity. And most importantly, humanity.
David Droga
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.
James Keller
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America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
Alistair Cooke
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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
Ryan Tedder
OneRepublic
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
Kevin Spacey
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There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
Artie Shaw
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
William S. Burroughs
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It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.
H. L. Mencken
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I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
Napoleon Hill
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It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy.
Jim Gaffigan
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After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
Ang Lee
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This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.
William Shakespeare
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What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive. It's really hard to do a literary reproduction of what makes you happy. That's what I try to do. If nothing else, it seems like there's enough people out there telling the world what isn't cool, or what's terrible, or what's depressing. I think there's an element of cynicism in my writing, but I'm an optimistic cynic.
Chuck Klosterman
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I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.
Graham Coxon
Blur
