The wisdom of the melancholy attitude as opposed to the bitter, angry one, lies in the understanding that the sorrow isn't just about you, that you have not been singled out, that you're suffering belongs to humanity in general.
It happens with people starting new businesses and it certainly happens with people who follow tips on this channel to become more charismatic as they say, haters gonna hate.
But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless.
One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person because it means that he and she have gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. It is so sad.
It sounds like I'm a skeptic, not a cynic, but when you are cynical, how problematic does that become for yourself and for your organization, and how widespread a problem is it?
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose, yet am a super idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
What this theory gives us is a reasonable counterargument to a society of cynicism, a world that only seems to acknowledge the worst of humanity as scientifically valid, a world without connection.
For his part, the narrator is a wage-slave at the ultra-cynical end of capitalism: he calculates whether recalling faulty cars will cost or save the manufacturer money.
In a study of British civil servants, men who scored high on measures of cynical hostility had shorter telomeres than men whose hostility scores were low.
Rejected suitors take to roaming as naturally as unhived bees; and the business to which he had cynically devoted himself was in many ways congenial to Venn.