cynicism [Theme]

Self-purification through suffering is easier - easier than the fate that you make for many of them as a complete justification at trial. You only instill cynicism in his soul, leaving him with a tempting question and ridicule of you.

I am already over forty, I learned and relearned a lot, fell under blows and rose again. I am wiser with experience and knowledge filtered through many years, I have become more hardened, more skeptical, more unflappable ... I did not want love and did not believe in it, I did not think that it would come again ... But it came, and all my experience was useless, and knowledge only hurts. And what burns on the fire of feelings better than dry cynicism - is this fuel prepared in the fateful difficult years?

Cynicism is like sarcasm. As if in jest, but quite seriously.

And cynical people are very often sentimental. Somehow it fits together.

What is the difference between lead and a knife?

Cynicism from suffering?… Have you ever thought about it?

We expelled these people because there was no reason to shoot them, and there was no way to endure them.

- Because cannibals are also, to some extent, philanthropists.

Each person has their own strengths and weaknesses. A true philosopher sees people as they are and is never disappointed because he does not expect too much from them. A cynic is someone who approaches people with his contrived scheme and gets upset if people don't fit into it.

Many young men go through cynicism, life weariness, disappointment, but this only means that they are not confident in themselves and experience the difficulties of adolescence.

Watch what people are most cynical about, and you can often understand what they are missing.

Modernism, decadence, absurdity arise whenever the disharmony of the world becomes unbearable. Not a crisis of art, but a breakdown of consciousness and art as its barometer. Madness, despair, hysteria, cynicism are not the destruction of art, but a reflection of the flames of conflagrations and cries of pain. And withdrawal into oneself - as evidence of extreme stress in a world where something has happened. Art as the desire of an unhappy consciousness to escape from the state of unhappiness. Art as a protest. As dissatisfaction with what exists.

They clothed their longing in cynicism, which is comparable to how darkness is clothed in laughter - for self-preservation, only more ugly. Thus, the children hardened themselves, deciding to respond to hatred with hatred.

There was a touch of cynicism in his behavior, a sure sign of internal moral decay.