Cynical Quotes Quotes

“Male sexuality. So artless, so crass. Men are always over the edge, right? One little push and they tumble down the cliff.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“You are innocent? Man, you really have a twisted view of this world. Tell you what? You are no saint either. You too are guilty. And you too are a sinner. Just like me. We both are going to Hell. But my place there will be a notch above yours.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.”
― Tana French, The Trespasser

“It had been a long fifteen years. So much had changed in both their lives. Both hearts somehow sadly hardened. “Let us just make it through,” Claire whispered her desperate plea. It was her only prayer, one she said over and over again. An almost cynical laugh erupted out of her as she turned one last time to say goodbye to her father’s tombstone. That was her prayer? That was all she could come up with to say to God? Then so be it.”
― Laura Aranda, Pushing Back the Darkness

“If your imaginary buddy 'up there' and his book and ism tell you to hate and kill people of another #faith and #religion, then, this non-existent f****r's mind is as little as his pecker.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.”
― Henry Louis Mencken

“History is a fable agreed upon.”
― David Quammen, The Soul of Viktor Tronko

“It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?

That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes.”
― Patrick Bryant, Hum A Radiant Sickness

“Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending.”
― Patrick Bryant, Hum A Radiant Sickness

“The greatest sin in the world is to say 'I love you' without realising that God snd his angels are listening and judging. If you do not feel their presence you are not in love. You have no right to be in love.”
― R. Joseph Hoffmann

“They tugged plans and ambitions out their asses and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.”
― Patrick Bryant, Hum A Radiant Sickness

“Oh yes, he's seen the black pupils of time's eyes. Two dark drains in a pair of dirty gas station bathroom sinks. The faucet's open and he's gurgling down the pipes, gushing toward whatever tank he's bound to swirl around in for the rest of his life. There's no telling from here if that's a realm of purification or of shit. There's only one way to find out, and that's to ride it all the way down.”
― Patrick Bryant, Hum A Radiant Sickness

“Sometimes prophecies are true, but at other times people make them look true.”
― P.J.Berman, Vengeance of Hope

“عاقبت به همه آنها سفارش کرد که ماکوندو را ترک کنند و تمام چیزهایی را که درباره جهان و قلب بشری به آنها آموخته بود، از یاد ببرند و بر آثار هوراس برینند و در هر جا هستند، همیشه بخاطر داشته باشند که گذشته دروغی بیش نیست و خاطره بازگشتی ندارد و هر بهاری که می گذرد دیگر بر نمی گردد و حتی شدیدترین و دیوانه کننده ترین عشق ها حقیقتی ناپایدار است.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“There's more things in the world that are old and deep than these men of philosophy and science we're infested with these days can admit of. Forgotten, maybe, by most; not the same as being gone.”
― Brian Ruckley, The Edinburgh Dead

“A servant was only as good as he was able to serve.”
― Nick Oliveri