It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.
The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.
Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.
I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.
When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity.
It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.
