Cynicism Reality Quotes

“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death… And they should! ...For they are 'in' life.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“... knowing life is full of shit, and shitty people, but hoping if you keep that in mind, it doesn't hurt as bad when you're right about it all.”
― Rayne Havok

“This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields.

I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't?”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them.
Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I still remember my childhood.
Some people are vegans. I have common sense.
Some people call me Maurice. Some people call me the Gangsta of Love.
Some people just want to live...but me, I'm the one still alive.”
― Dave Matthes, Sleepeth Not, the Bastard

“On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.”
― Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli

“Because I’m done. My life is over, for all intents and purposes. No matter how hard I try from here on out, I’ll never do anything one as important as what I was doing before.”
― Wildbow, Worm

“Life would be so much more enjoyable if some people would just simply mind their own business..”
― Jaen Hospedales

“Through experience, he had learnt to pick up all of the unmistakable signs of vulnerability in a woman, everything that pointed to her being an easy prey.”
― Alice Walsh, A Poker Game of Love

“But past service counted for little these days. The world, and those who governed it, moved too quickly to be carrying such burdens as memory and gratitude.”
― Brian Ruckley, The Edinburgh Dead

“Because I’m done. My life is over, for all intents and purposes. No matter how hard I try from here on out, I’ll never do anything one ten–thousandth as important as what I was doing before.”
― Wildbow, Worm

“People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams

“You have to understand something about girls, Mick. You see 'em in the winner's circle, but you'll never find horseshit on their shoes.”
― Miles Watson, Cage Life

“I rather fancy, if you will forgive me an aphorism, that we live in not the Age of Reason, as so many proclaim, but in that of Ignorance; for there is nothing reason so readily proclaims to the attentive mind as the extent of our ignorance. It transforms what were once mysteries, for ever inaccessible to human comprehension, into merely phenomena we have not yet explained, and thereby at once increases what we know and what we do not.”
― Brian Ruckley, The Edinburgh Dead