Cynthia Heimel Quotes

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

False hope really makes you cynical.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

We must break the cycle of cynicism that has hold of many of our youth.

I decided to protest in 2016 because I was feeling helpless and somebody needed to do something.

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.

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

There's a great feeling of powerlessness in America. When I express ideas to people, they say, 'That's terrific, but do you think it really counts?'

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I've stopped many things such as healthy eating. What's the point? In this post-truth era, I feel increasingly powerless.