Cynical Outlook Quotes

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

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Negative people will always criticize

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn't matter how brave you are, or how reserved, or how much you've developed a sense of humour, you still end up with your heart broken. That's when you stop laughing.

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

[Describing Richard Nixon:] ... an unpleasant man.... What I never understood is why he became a politician.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

When I say I wasn't a 'meant to be' guy, I've almost been jaded in the sport, where I don't believe in anything.

I get the feeling that my songs aren't that dark. There is a cynicism but humour also - it's not depression upon depression upon depression. It's a blend.

Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.

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.

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.