Life is serious but art is fun!

John Irving

Tags: cynicism real-life humour

Show the quote in German

Show the quote in French

Show the quote in Italian

Go to quote

---

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

Peggy Noonan

Tags: cynicism

Go to quote

---

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--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!

Jean Anouilh

Tags: happiness society cynicism hope

Go to quote

---

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

Jenny Holzer

Tags: politics activism cynicism

Show the quote in German

Show the quote in French

Show the quote in Italian

Go to quote

---

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

Tags: cynicism

Go to quote

---

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

Tags: disillusionment cynicism idealism

Go to quote

---

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

Scott Dikkers

Tags: humor friendship cynicism atheism

Go to quote

---

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

Sharon Kay Penman

Tags: cynicism hope

Go to quote

---

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. 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. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.

Stephen Colbert

Tags: wisdom optimism cynicism youth

Go to quote

---

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Bergen Evans

Tags: humor cynicism

Go to quote

---

« first previous
Page 2 of 17.
next last »

---

---