129 quotes found
“We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.”
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble g...”
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
“Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.”
“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness,...”
“All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobo...”
“You're such a cynic," Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute.”
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness-...”
“…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...”
“The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.”
“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
“Maybe he wasn’t there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.”
“In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”
“The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thoug...”
“Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.”
“Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the earlypaths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with h...”
“A man may have ‘his moment,’ and that moment endure for decades, or only for the few seconds it takes for a bullet to travel across a courtyard to the balcony upon which he stands as he exhorts his...”
“I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.”
