240 Quotes About Cynical

Has anybody ever told you you’re a remarkably cynical person?”“I like to think of it as learning from experience.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

Did it ever occur to you that when he told you he would come back he was lying? Many a man has done it. He probably meant no malice – he just did not want to see your tears and pleading. If you find him in Tarras you may not like what you discover. He won't thank you for crossing 'mountain and down' to find him. Life is not like the songs Avalon, tis far less pretty.

It is impossible to ostracize a lone wolf.

Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy horror-movine, usually...

Eventually she will die the way all old people in America die. . . from humiliation, incontinence, boredom and neglect.

A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s future. So we could start over, and live happily-ever-after. It wasn’t turning out that way, was it?

It's just so perfuck.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.