Quotes on “cynicism”

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

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

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

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, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

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.