#cynicism

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. ↗

— Tom Waits

#cynicism #music #music

Unless I’m at a wedding, I don’t like veiled threats.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cynical #cynicism #marriage #threats #veil

All men have a natural fear of making a mistake--by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too ill of a person is perhaps not feared, at least not in the same degree as the other. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#men

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#cynicism #destroy #disillusion #effectively #just

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#cynicism #engage #honestly #simply

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#cynicism #love #lying #passion #love

For a year, Johnny lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own. But that's the way it was. What had been concrete one day proved sand the next; strength was illusion; faith meant shit. So what? So his once-bright world had devolved to cold, wet fog. That was life, the new order. Johnny had nothing to trust but himself, so that's the way he rolled - his path, his choices, and no looking back. ↗

— John Hart

#facing-reality #jaded #faith

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#close #club #come #could #cynicism

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#real #soul #you #your

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#forward #power #thrust