Jaded Perspective Quotes

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.

When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.

I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up.

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.

It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.

I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead.

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.

I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.