The Cynic's Sanctuary

"True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone."

-- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates: Bitterly Amusing Thoughts on Aging, Insanity, Death, Extinction & Other Inconveniences

Cynical Quote of the Week

"Better to be merry some of the time, and miserable some of the time, than to be merely well-adjusted all of the time." -- Rick Bayan

Cynical Quote of the Week

"Driving is a lot like life: we simply want to enjoy the journey from Point A to Point B, but all the forces of man and nature conspire to frazzle us along the way." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

 

Cynical Quote of the Week

"Nothing turns a pacifist into a warrior like the invasion of his home turf." -- Rick Bayan, "A Bug's Death," from Extremely Dark Chocolates

Cynical Quote of the Week

"The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability." -- Rick Bayan

Cynical Quote of the Week

"We're all sacks of flesh, and we're all going to die!" -- Rick Bayan, from "Flesh and Mortality," Extremely Dark Chocolates

Cynical Quote of the Week

"No matter what we're doing at the moment, the majority of us would rather be doing something else." -- Rick Bayan

Cynical Quote of the Week

"True individualists are always at odds with the universe." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

Cynical Quote of the Week

"Perhaps the most irrational belief of all is expecting the world to be rational." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

 

Cynical Quote of the Week

"Humans are the idiot-savants of the animal kingdom." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

Cynical Quote of the Week

"The practical drives out the whimsical." -- Rick Bayan

Cynical Quote of the Week

"The practical drives out the whimsical." -- Rick Bayan

Cynical Quote of the Week

What can you say about a deity who gladly dispenses with the lives of the meek to nourish a strong and devious elite? -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

 

Cynical Quote of the Week

"If all goes according to plans, the Boomers will become the first generation in history to advance directly from adolescence to senility without the usual interval of maturity." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

Cynical Quote of the Week

"No matter what we’re doing at the moment, the majority of us would rather be doing something else." -- Rick Bayan

Cynical Quote of the Week

"The practical drives out the whimsical." -- Rick Bayan

Cynical Quote of the Week

"The gods have always shown a distressing tendency to favor their most obnoxious creatures." -- Rick Bayan

Cynical Quote of the Week

Fools rush in where fools have been before. -- Anonymous

Cynical Quote of the Week

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. -- Cyril Connally

　

Cynical Quote of the Week

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. -- Benjamin Disraeli