Cynic Quotes - Page 6

• It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Cat, Existence

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 71), 2006.

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• The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Book, People

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• The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Thinking, Hopeful, Trying

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• What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.

  Richard Ford

  Loss, Simple, Chance

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.511, A&C Black

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• The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

  Paul Hawken

  Dreamer, World, Persons

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• To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.

  Isaac Asimov

  Disappointment, Believe, People

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

  Hugh Jackman

  Lying, Middle, Idealist

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• Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

  David Gemmell

  Hero, Inclination

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• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Absurd, Dear

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• She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Gideon, Green

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• A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

  Victor Hugo

  Sewers

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.858, Wordsworth Editions

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• The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

  Joyce Brothers

  Butterfly, Finding Love, Balance

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• Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.

  Helen McCloy

  Believe, Civilization, Long

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• A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Looks, Speech

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

  Nora Ephron

  Thinking, Cynical, Romance

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• No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Raised, Monument

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.333, Bantam

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• It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Suicide, Cat, Dark

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 71), 2006.

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• We shall build on.
  On through the cynic

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

  Persistence

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• He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

  Colum McCann

  Heart, Care, Might

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• The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

  Criss Jami

  Yawning, People, Bored

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.115, Criss Jami

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• I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

  Nora Ephron

  Believe, Passion, Married

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.85, Vintage

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• You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

  David Eddings

  Majesty, Realist, Accused

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• Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Use, May

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.28, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right. I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me. I'm not changing. I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

  John Candy

  Hurt, Real, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Del Griffith". "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", 1987.

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