“ I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock t… H.P. Lovecraft
“ 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
“ The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too… Diane Setterfield
“ This boy, he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that bound everything together. And for him it was true. Life had been beautiful for… Mary Balogh
“ The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though… Eric Hoffer
“ She is so free with herself and so certain of her path, something I now cynically believe only comes from not being aware of the infinite multitude of right paths. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,but the moving ever shall stay. Basava
“ Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches an… Thomm Quackenbush
“ I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of mirth and despair. Inherent inconsistences… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ 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. Criss Jami
“ We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. Paul Hoffman
“ It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half. Jess C. Scott
“ The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. Criss Jami
“ Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness. Criss Jami
