443 Quotes About Cynicism

Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character.

They knew what had happened at school and what was happening now, but they dismissed it in that self-serving way parents often had of pretending anything they can't solve isn't really a problem.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

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.

When everything seems to be lacking integrity, you find it in yourself.

Nature is cruel; it's man whose is sick of blood– and man doesn't seem so very sick of it...

Nobody can hate man more than man.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Cynicism is best countered by wit and humour, satire and sarcasm.... which suggests a connection between the disordered individual and his degenerate society.