#cynicism – @anenlighteningellipsis on Tumblr

“that’s just the way the world works” it literally doesn’t have to be but okay

if anyone ever tells you “humans are just selfish / life is cruel / that’s just how the world is, get over it” be critical of them bc there’s a 75% chance they’re just using that as an excuse for their own shitty behavior so that they don’t have to put an effort into being better, kinder people

#remember #cynicism #patriarchy #to see if there's a pub

anenlighteningellipsis

4. I am too cynical to have a therapist. I am too jealous to have closure. I am too stubborn to grow up. I am too anxious to have stability. I am too jaded to believe in something else.

Alok Vaid-Menon, “Confessional”

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A blind fate, a vast pitiless mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence.

H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (via anenlighteningellipses)

#***#h.g. wells #h. g. wells #the island of dr. moreau #lit #quotes #repeat #because #cynicism #pity #existence

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I can see ahead only into dark, sordid alleys, where the dregs, the sludge, the filth of my life lies, unglorified, unchanged — transfigured by nothing: no nobility, not even the illusion of a dream.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via anenlighteningellipses)

#because i am cut open #despair #depression #plath #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #journals #illusions #cynicism #darkness #quotes

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A blind fate, a vast pitiless mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence.

H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

#H. G. Wells #h.g. wells #the island of dr. moreau #cynicism #existentialism #existence #honestly #unsparing #pitiless #lit #quotes #pity #indifference #unfeeling

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It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet if such pain had been dumb, I believe I could have stood it well enough.It is when suffering finds a voice that this pity comes troubling us.

H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

#H. G. Wells #h.g. wells #the island of dr. moreau #lit #suffering #cynicism #pretty much #callous #truth #quotes #pain

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Sympathetic pain -- all I know of it I remember as a thing I used to suffer from years ago.

H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

#H. G. Wells #h.g. wells #lit #the island of dr. moreau #sympathy #cynicism #indifference #detachment #suffering #quotes #pain

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I can see ahead only into dark, sordid alleys, where the dregs, the sludge, the filth of my life lies, unglorified, unchanged -- transfigured by nothing: no nobility, not even the illusion of a dream.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

#plath #lit #journals #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #about me right now #disillusionment #cynicism #depression #hopelessness #quotes #memory #mistakes

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rosettes

“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via rosettes)

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#survival techniques #about me #cynicism #plath #quotes

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trendy-rechauffe

She was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

Amy Waldman | The Submission (via creatingaquietmind)

#about me #amy waldman #quotes #cynicism #survival techniques 101

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peggypepper

All About Eve (1950)

oldworldlouise

Old Hollywood had some critical points now and again.

#now and again #all about eve #film #gifs #cynicism #about me

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seinfeld-daily

#about me #personal #cynicism

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dabacahin

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors (via dabacahin)

#pretty much #augusten burroughs #running with scissors #quotes #lit #cynicism #disillusionment #life #misery

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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#about me #skepticism #atheism #atheist #jean-paul sartre #sartre #philosophers #lit #literature #quotes #belief #faith #lack thereof #disillusionment #cynicism

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They went along with the sound of a tinny piano playing in the parlor downstairs. "Mister, I met a man once when I was a kid," it always began...

#casablanca #rick blaine #humphrey bogart #classic film #film #cynicism #life #stories #caustic #dialogue #gif

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Then again she looked the most unhappy woman in the world. She thought carefully of the word “soul” and a sense of absolute vacancy transfixed her; as if the stigma was removed from life. Her lips pursed as if to spit venom at the word; pursed they remained.

Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House & Other Short Stories (via violentwavesofemotion)

#melancholia #bitterness #cynicism #sometimes i wonder how often i look like this woman #and then i purse my lips some more and hang my head in resignation #virginia woolf #a haunted house and other short stories #literature #quotes