Love Cynicism Quotes

#1. I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

Jennifer Phang

#2. Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren't treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you're on the right side?

Julian Barnes

#3. The truth is that there are two men in Ibsen - an idealist, exalted to the verge of sentimentality, and a critic, hard, inexorable, remorseless, to the verge of cynicism. What we call his "social philosophy" is a modus vivendi arrived at between them. Both agree in repudiating "marriage for love";

Henrik Ibsen

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. He said cynicism's self-protection, a defense mechanism used by cowards who give up on love because they're afraid love's given up on them.

Linda Yellin

#7. Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

David Nicholls

#8. The backside of Hollywood passion is disappointment and loneliness - and more often than not, resentment and cynicism about the nature of love itself.
Betsy and I were building more of a symphony than a pop song.

Donald Miller

#9. Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.

Jayce O'Neal

#10. Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.

Matt Ridley

#11. Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

Geoff Mulgan

#12. I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

Marianne Williamson

#13. The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#14. With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again.

Marty Rubin

#15. Cynicism springs from disappointments in love.

Marty Rubin

#16. It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#17. Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.

Jayce O'Neal

#18. I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

Columbus Short

#19. Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.

Alain De Botton

#20. I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nice and pleased to see you - which is so different from London. Maybe I'll end up so tired of smiles and helpfulness that I'll long for the rudeness and cynicism of home.

Helen George

#21. Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#22. 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

#23. Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.

Brian D. McLaren

#24. 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

#25. An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.

May Sarton

#26. 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

#27. It's not easy to be optimistic and hopeful after you come to know and love some of the young victims of sexual abuse, violence, poverty, neglect, drugs, and rape. It's taking me a while to climb out of this hatred, this noxious cynicism. I'm doing my best.

M.T. Johnson

#28. Divide and rule, weaken and conquer, love and enslave, these are three tenets of politics

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#29. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.

Rob Brezsny

#30. Maintained his stance of cynicism, could not speak from grief; the two of them drove along and then Kevin slapped him on the shoulder, which is the only avenue open to men to show love for each other.

Philip K. Dick

#31. Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

Bell Hooks

#32. A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs.

George Jean Nathan

#33. Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

Bryant McGill

#34. His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#35. 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

#36. For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#37. You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

Merle Shain