#cynic

Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route. ↗

— Meghan Ciana Doidge

#insightful #reality #survival #life

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life #life-lessons #wine #life

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#marriage #marriage

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#definition #honesty #vision

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#dire #religious

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

— Jenny Holzer

#cynicism #politics #cynicism

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

#cynic #existence #suicide #cynicism

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations. ↗

— Peter M. Senge

#idealism #cynicism

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#cynicism

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

#naive #cynicism