Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.
T.H. WhiteTags: happiness pain cynicism stoicism dichotomy
It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.
Megan ChanceTags: belief cynicism faith skepticism spiritualism theatrics
Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
Glen CookTags: cynicism dreams poor poor-people rich-people
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
François de la RochefoucauldTags: cynicism
He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.
Meredith DuranTags: cynicism
It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.
Derek LandyTags: perspective cynicism religion selfishness cynic skepticism helping-others
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.
H. Rider HaggardTags: age morality cynicism corruption amorality hopelessness immorality growing-old
Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.
Noelle OxenhandlerTags: life truth melancholy cynicism humour the-art-of-wishing
Better not to find out whether or not the rumors
are true, I say. Better find the other bastard and skin
him.
Tags: cynicism dark-hunters strange-logic
My lord, will you be true?
Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault:
Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,
I with great truth catch mere simplicity;
Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,
With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.
Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit
Is "plain and true"; there's all the reach of it.
Tags: truth honesty cynicism betrayal harlot
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