C Quotes
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“Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.”
“Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping”
“Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.”
Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer
“Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.”
“Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.”
“Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.”
“Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.”
“Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.”
“Cynicism is the humor of hatred.”
“Cynicism is the humour of hatred”
Source: Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm
“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.”
“Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"”
“Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.”
“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.”
“Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.”
“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
“Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking”
“Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.”
“Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.”
“Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.”
Source: The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land
“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.”
“Cynicism may help us create simpler storylines with good guys and bad guys, but it doesn't make us any better at telling the truth, which is that most of us are a frightening mix of good and evil, sinner and saint.”
Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
“Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.”
“Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.”
“Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.”
“Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.”
“Cynicism's always a pose - always.”
“Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.”
Source: Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders
“Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.”
“Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.”
“Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.”
“Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.”
“Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.”
“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
“Cynics criticize and winners analyze.”
“Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.”
“Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.”
“Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.”
“Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears her heart on her sleeve and it is as big as the country she writes about. Is she the quintessential American girl? You bet she is, part Annie Oakley, part Emily Dickinson—sharpshooting poet of wild nights. She zooms in on the detritus of love—the broken fragments, the fallen leaves—and puts together a collage that is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Watch out—she’s driving down your street.”
“Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back into the kitchen. When we view the little things with thanksgiving, even they become big things.”
Source: These High, Green Hills
“Cynthia drove for quite some time. Her life changed as much as she wanted, then changed even more after that. She got tired of running away from home, and all that driving didnt excite her the way it used to. Eventually, Cynthia found home in herself. Then, she found home in someone else. And then, she learned how to fall in love with staying.”
Source: That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
“Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?”
Source: Isabella Warrior Queen
“Cynthia then holiness spread in arctic dews,
from lately month that it pinion'd the living world,there did swell the mild and greenish meadows,winter anew its frozen gold of treasury wild.”
Source: Halcyon Wings: 'These passions feathers are gathering on a winged vision'
“Cynthia was originally from Sierra Leone, and I loved the way those two dusky words rolled off her tongue. As we drove along I found myself fascinated with the deep “Oooooohhs” and “Aaaahhhhss” that made up her conversational speech patterns”
Source: Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab
“Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.”
“Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling combination of amusement and haughtiness that she carried off so well. It was a look that expressed disdain at Campion’s guarded advances but also a kind of measured probationary respect as well. It was a look that said You dare to think that I will find you as interesting as you obviously find me Well perhaps in that very act of daring you become interesting to me if only fleetingly.”
“Cypress laid waste to the tunnels, caverns, and shadows of the other world. She drew upon memories of her own blood: her presence would be a mortal threat to those who wounded, maimed, her ancestors, her lovers, Leroy. Like those women before her, who loaded bundles on their heads and marched off to fields that were not their own, like the "bearers" of her dreams swamped with births of infants they would never rear, Cypress clung to her body, the body of a dancer; the chart of her recklessness, her last weapon, her perimeters: blood, muscle, and the will to simply change the world.”
Source: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo