Juno Temple Quotes

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

I’m not a child. Don’t talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you’re worse. You’re an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)

He who best knows the world will love it least.

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

I've never been an optimist.

I'm a pessimist by nature, so I don't believe something until someone has kind of punched me over the head with it.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

In the affairs of this world men are saved, not by faith, but by want of it.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.