#cynical

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#belong #cynical #future #i #i think

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#before #beings #capable #children #cynical

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#cynical #dirty #i #politics #reject

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#automatically #become #cynical #how #indication

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#arrive #critical #cynical #either #heritage

Love should last a lifetime. But not the lifetime of a giant tortoise. More like the lifespan of a gastrotrich. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #age

It is one of the consolations of middle-aged reformers that the good they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all. ↗

— Saki

#wry #age

The universe is a meat grinder and we're just pork in designer shoes, keeping busy so we can pretend we're not all headed for the sausage factory. Maybe I've been hallucinating this whole time and there is no Heaven and Hell. Instead of having to choose between God and the devil, maybe our only real choice comes down to link or patty? ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#existential #business

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#life-lessons #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