Cynical Quotes

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

No one more cynical than an idealist.

I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.

I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.

They tugged plans and ambitions out their as*es and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

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

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.

It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes.

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities.

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant.""We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.

A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go.

Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.

They speak very well of you".- "They speak very well of everybody."- "That so bad?"- "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic side and wallow in them, or my cynical side and reflect on the reliability.

I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending.

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.

...ya can't get to Nevada on five bucks and a bad heart...

Think for youself but not because I said so!

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

Of course I love you. For real. I will sure come and personally meet you myself. Just to make sure you're well. When is your funeral?

Are you always so cynical?' said Angelica.'No, ' said Katherine. 'Sometimes I'm asleep.

True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.

If by ‘foe’ you mean a brutal killer, then I suppose I’d fall into the ‘friend’ category, ” I replied cynically. “Although in your case, we may have to find a secret option number three.

Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.