“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
“Beneath every cynic there's a frustrated romantic.”
“A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”
“All romantics meet the same fate some day.Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.”
“Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic.”
“Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.”