This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic. — Lorrie Moore
I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone. — Sara Quin
Love is a misunderstanding between two fools. — Oscar Wilde
Cold silence has a tendency to
atrophy any
sense of compassion
between supposed lovers — Maynard James Keenan
In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end. — Emile Zola
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. — Edith Piaf
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. — Shannon Alder
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. — Sappho
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy. — Leonardo DiCaprio
What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal. — Nina Simone
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. — H. L. Mencken
When it comes to love, everyone is a liar. — Brady Udall
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. — Miguel de Unamuno
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. — Sandy Wilson
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. — Magnus Hirschfeld
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. — Mangnu Hirschfield
Show No Love , Cus Love Can Get U killed — 50 Cent
love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. — Jeff Buckley
True love is usually the most inconvenient kind. — Kiera Cass
The hottest love has the coldest end. — Socrates
Cynical Love Image Quotes
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Cynical Person Quotes
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. — Leon Trotsky
People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience. — Tucker Carlson
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy. — Natalie Angier
I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole. — Frank Zappa
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. — H. L. Mencken
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along. — Nicholas Sparks
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun. — Barbara Kingsolver
I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes. — Bipasha Basu
One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism. — Damon Lindelof
Sassy Quotes
It's not your job to like me - it's mine — Byron Katie
Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating. — Janeane Garofalo
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh! — William Shakespeare
My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky. — Katy Perry
No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry. — Sarah Kane
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
Success builds character, failure reveals it. — Dave Checketts
My granddad used to say, If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma. — Gary Mule Deer
I just really wanted to be myself. I wanted to be sassy, the attitude, all these things that I am. — Rihanna
If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it. — Al Yankovic
When Love Calls Quotes
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating. — Richard Rohr
And through it all she offers me protection,
a lot of love and affection
whether I'm right or wrong.
And down the waterfall
where ever it may take me
I know that life won't break me
when I come to call, she won't forsake me
I'm loving angels instead. — Robbie Williams
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it? — Jeanette Winterson
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne
When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills. — Janis Joplin
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
When I'm dating someone, I have a list called my 'Oh No Nos.' If a woman commits a Oh No No, it can end the relationship. Not loving '90s R&B music is #3 on the Oh No Nos list. Girl don't
even know who Ginuwine is. — Aziz Ansari
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. — Liz Carpenter
Went from being hated on, to Niggas try to go down the same road I made it on. Aint no love lost but aint no love shown, so now when niggas call i just don not pick up the phone. — Wiz Khalifa
People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love. — Dr. Seuss
Cynical Quotes
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation. — Bertrand Russell
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. — H. L. Mencken
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. — Harry S. Truman
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position. — Stokely Carmichael
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything that it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. — Erica Jong
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. — A. A. Milne
Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving — E. Urner Goodman
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? — Dorothy Parker
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cynicism Quotes
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one. — Michael Saylor
Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed. — Naval Ravikant
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. — Joseph Pulitzer
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. — William Shakespeare
I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish — Jamie Oliver
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. — Lionel Trilling
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people. — Tzipi Livni
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. — Calvin Coolidge
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. — John W. Gardner
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it — Donald M. Fraser
Being Cynical Quotes
Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now! — Thabo Mbeki
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay
To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences. — J. William Fulbright
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get. — Joanna Hoffman
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect. — Uell Stanley Andersen
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent. — Alexander Pushkin
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. — Stephen Colbert
Political Cynicism Quotes
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? — Barack Obama
I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money. — Allan Boesak
When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society. — Edward Brooke
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. — John Harington
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. — Jerry Brown
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. — Pauline Kael
The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts. — William Shakespeare
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. — Richard M. Nixon
I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests. — Richard Trumka
IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed. — Tariq Ramadan
No Cynic Quotes
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. — Miller Williams
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds. — Garet Garrett
Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance. — Tom Hiddleston
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel. — Anton Chekhov
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. — James Kern Feibleman
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. — H. L. Mencken
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Plautus
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. — Charles Krauthammer
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no letters in the mailbox
And there are no grapes upon the vine
And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore
And there are no diamonds in the mine — Leonard Cohen
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done. — Walter Brueggemann
Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. — Samuel Pepys
History is neither written nor made without love or hate. — Theodor Mommsen
Love is the fart
Of every heart
It pains the man when 'tis kept close,
And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose. — John Suckling
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower. — Rob Brezsny
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Dorothy Day
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to. — Philip K. Dick
Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk being gentle among those who admire the tough, risk love when it may not be returned, because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality. — John Howard Yoder
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter. — Ray Stannard Baker
We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes. — Glen Hansard
If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked. — Henry Miller
Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music. — Zubin Mehta
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
They love too much that die for love. — John Ray
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason. — Albert Camus
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
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'. — Dawn Powell
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury
Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control. — Michael Lerner
Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance. — Amy Grant
Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice. — Jacqueline Novogratz
Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. — Stanley Norman Cohen
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. — Max Ehrmann
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. — William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic. — John Lennon
Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot. — E. A. Bucchianeri
What is love but a second-hand emotion? — Tina Turner
A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman. — Isaac Goldberg
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The reason that women do not love one another is - men. — Jean De La Bruyere
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin
I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself. — Napoleon Hill
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: It's gonna go wrong. Or She's going to hurt me. Or,I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . . Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury
I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued. — Kehinde Wiley
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete. — Steve Goodier
Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between. — Jerome Lawrence
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense.
You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury
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