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3[[folder:Anime/Manga]]
4->''"If someone ever tells me it's a mistake to have hope, well, then, I'll just tell them they're wrong. And I'll keep telling them 'til they believe! No matter how many times it takes."''
5-->-- '''Madoka Kaname''', ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''
6
7->''"As much in this world that you can objectively reason through, you can't reason through everything. People who don't feel every once in a while... they're the worst cry-babies in the end. Being afraid is natural. It's part of being alive. Without it, you're already dead. Take it from a life-long coward."''
8-->-- '''Eikichi Onizuka''' to '''Urumi Kanzaki''', ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka''
9[[/folder]]
10
11[[folder:Comic Books]]
12->''"The advice to ‘[[BrokenPedestal kill your darlings]]’ has been attributed to various authors across the galaxies...and Mister Heist hated them all.\
13Why teach young writers to edit out whatever it is they feel most passionate about? Better to kill everything in their writing they DON’T love as much.\
14Until only the darlings remain."''
15-->-- ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}''
16
17->''"[[RousseauWasRight This world is full of men and women who have the courage to listen to their hearts...and who believe in doing what's right! I'm not just talking about heroes, Dad. I mean everyday people...like you...and me]]! The Devils can never win...as long as we have hope! That's why you can't give up! You mustn't surrender to despair...or you'll run the risk of becoming a monster yourself!"''
18-->-- '''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]''', ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage''
19
20-> '''Cole:''' You know what gives me the strength? [[DeathByOriginStory The loss.]] We're alike that way, I imagine. Admit it: nobody's who a stranger to that particular pain could ever be as driven as us.\
21'''Daredevil:''' '''Never''' - (throws his staff at her face, purposefully missing it by mere ''millimeters'') - don't you ''ever'' say that to me ever again. That is a repellent statement. It's a vomitous insult to every cop [=-=] every fireman [=-=] every soldier alive who steps up to fight for those who can't! [[SincerityMode I am sorry for your loss!]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech But if you genuinely believe that only the death of a loved one can motivate a human being to take up a cause...]] then get your pathetic, cynical [[PrecisionFStrike ass]] out of my way so I can do my job!
22-->--''ComicBook/DaredevilMarkWaid''
23
24->''"Know what '''I''' think? I think you want everyone dead because looking at life makes you realize what you're missing. Only a bitter little adolescent '''boy''' could confuse realism with pessimism."''
25-->-- '''The Hoaxer''', ''ComicBook/FlexMentallo''
26
27-> ''"I spoke to Commissioner Gordon before I came in here. He's fine. Despite all [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker your]] sick, vicious little games, he's as sane as he ever was! So maybe ordinary people don't always crack. Maybe there isn't any need to crawl under a rock with all the other slimy things when trouble hits. Maybe it was just you, all the time!"''
28-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''', ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''
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30
31[[folder:Comic Strips]]
32-> ''"Dear life, you've been very difficult lately. But I'm gonna be happy anyways. Because I can be difficult, too."''
33-->-- '''Pig''', ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', [[https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2020/07/31 7/31/2020]]
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35
36[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
37->'''Drummond:''' Don't you understand the meaning of what happened here today?\
38'''Hornbeck:''' What happened here today [[StrawNihilist has no meaning.]]\
39'''Drummond:''' ''You'' have no meaning! Your whole life has no meaning. You're like a ghost pointing an empty sleeve and smirking at everything people feel and need and struggle for. I pity you.\
40'''Hornbeck:''' You pity me?\
41'''Drummond:''' Isn't there something? What touches you? What warms you? Every man has a dream. What do you dream about? What do you ''need''? You don't need anything, do you? People? Love? An idea, maybe just to hold to? You poor slob. You have nothing, you believe in nothing. You're all alone. [[DyingAlone When you go to your grave, there won't be anybody to pull the grass up over your head.]] Nobody to mourn you. Nobody to give a damn. You will be what you have always been; ''alone''.\
42'''Hornbeck:''' You're wrong, Henry. You'll be there. You're the type. Who else would defend my right to be lonely?
43-->-- ''Film/InheritTheWind''
44
45->''"I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments."''
46-->-- '''Nick Hornby''', ''Film/HighFidelity''
47
48->''"OK, no, listen: I've ''had it'' with that! God, who do you think you are, Rorschach? You live off people while insulting them, and nobody complains because they think you're ''[[StrawNihilist a goddamned lunatic!]]''"''
49-->--'''Dan''', ''{{Film/Watchmen}}''
50
51->''"I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like hurting people's feelings."''
52-->-- '''Del Griffith''', ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles''
53
54->'''Henri Ducard:''' Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.\
55'''Bruce Wayne:''' That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.
56-->-- ''Film/BatmanBegins''
57
58->''"What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone is as ugly as you? You're '''alone!'''"''
59-->-- '''Batman''', to the Joker, ''Film/TheDarkKnight''
60
61->''"Some people look out on the sea\
62And see a brand new day\
63Their spirit lifts them high above the blue\
64Yet, some others wear an anchor\
65And they sink in seconds flat"''
66-->-- '''Can You Imagine That?''' From ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns''
67
68->''"Turns out, resentment is corrosive, and I hate it."''
69-->-- '''Tony Stark''', ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
70
71->''"[[TheEmpire They]] win by making you think you're alone. Remember? There's more of us!"''
72-->--'''Zorii''', ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker''
73
74->'''Rick Blaine''': Don't you sometimes wonder if it's worth all this? I mean what you're fighting for.\
75'''Victor Laszlo''': You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.\
76'''Rick''': Well, what of it? It'll be out of its misery.\
77'''Victor''': You know how you sound, Mr. Blaine? Like a man who's trying to convince himself of something he doesn't believe in his heart.
78-->--''Film/{{Casablanca}}''
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80
81[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
82->''"To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me and I’ll think about it for the rest of my life. All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. [[EarnYourHappyEnding But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen]]."''
83-->-- '''Creator/ConanOBrien''', in his last episode of ''Series/TheTonightShow''
84
85->'''The Doctor''': You coming?\
86'''Amy Pond''': No.\
87'''The Doctor''': You wanted to come fourteen years ago.\
88'''Amy Pond''': I grew up.\
89'''The Doctor''': Don't worry. I'll soon fix that.
90-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]"
91
92->'''Dr. Molly Clock''': Perry, no one's "pure evil." I mean, yeah, some people have a hard outer shell, but inside ''everybody'' has a creamy center.\
93'''Dr. Perry Cox''': There are plenty of people here on this particular planet who are hard on the outside ''and'' hard on the inside!\
94'''Clock:''' So they have more of a nougat-y center?\
95'''Cox:''' ...Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine.\
96'''Clock:''' ''(rubs his tummy)'' I'm touching your creamy center! ''*leaves*''\
97'''Cox:''' Oh, I am so very angry that I'm going to find someone to kill just to prove her wrong.
98-->-- ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'', "My Common Enemy"
99
100->'''Mulder:''' Enough with the [[NewAgeRetroHippie harmonic convergence crap]], okay? You’re not saying anything to me.\
101'''Melissa Scully:''' Why don’t you just drop your cynicism and your paranoia and your defeat? You know, just because it’s positive and good doesn’t make it silly or trite!
102-->-- ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS02E08OneBreath One Breath]]"
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104
105[[folder:Literature]]
106->'''Koudelka:''' You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!\
107'''Cordelia:''' Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.
108-->-- '''Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold''', ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga''
109
110-> ''"Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace."''
111-->-- '''Cordelia's son, Miles''', ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga''
112
113->A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
114-->-- '''Creator/AlexandreDumas''', ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''
115
116->Do not be a clockwork orange.\
117Freedom has a lovely voice.\
118Here is good and there is badness,\
119Look on both and take your choice.\
120Sweet of juice and hue and aroma,\
121Let’s not be changed to fruit machines.\
122Choice is free but seldom easy.\
123That’s what human freedom means.
124-->-- '''Creator/AnthonyBurgess''', ''Literature/AClockworkOrange''
125
126->''"You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting."''
127-->-- '''Creator/RobertAHeinlein''', ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove''
128
129->The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids considering happiness as something rather stupid]]. Only pain is intellectual, [[EvilIsCool only evil interesting]]. This is the treason of [[TrueArtIsAngsty the artist]]: a refusal to admit [[BeingEvilSucks the banality of evil]] and [[TooBleakStoppedCaring the terrible boredom of pain]]. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.
130-->--'''Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin''', ''Literature/TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas''
131
132->...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.
133-->-- '''Creator/JoseSaramago''', ''The Double''
134
135->''"That's the problem with you sad city types. You think a place has to be boring and dull as ditch water before you accept it as real."''
136-->-- '''Blabbermouth''', ''Literature/HarounAndTheSeaOfStories''
137
138->"Then why?" said [[ArcVillain Sabbath]], genuinely puzzled. "You're not stupid about these matters. You're not starry-eyed, or basically impractical. You can see what reality is. Why don't you accept it?"\
139The Doctor was sitting back in his chair, his clasped hands resting against his chest. "Because I prefer not to."\
140"I beg your pardon?"\
141"Because I don't, won't accept. I don't approve. Injustice is the rule, but I want justice. Suffering is the rule, but I want to end it. Despair accords with reality, but I insist on hope. I don't accept it ''because it is unacceptable''. I say ''no.''"
142-->-- '''Lloyd Rose''', ''[[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures Camera Obscura]]''
143
144->''"I'm not playing at all....When you treat everyone you meet as either an enemy or a pawn, you give others no choice but to hate or fear you.... No one's strong forever. No matter how good a user you are, when you treat others like tools, you're setting yourself up for an endgame that inevitably leaves you outnumbered and alone, with no one but resentful pawns for backup. That doesn't sound like victory to me...This doesn't have to be a fight or a war or a game or any of those terrible dragon metaphors for life. Because we're not thoughtless pawns with artificially limited moves. We're dragons."''
145-->-- '''Julius''', ''Literature/NiceDragonsFinishLast''
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147
148[[folder:Music]]
149->''"So when you feel your heart sink into your chest\
150Don't forget everything is okay in the end\
151We are not okay'' '''''but this is not the end yet'''"''
152-->-- "Strange Comfort", by The Color Morale
153
154->''"I know that being dated and over it\
155Is way overrated.\
156And that the colors of this world\
157Only seem faded in direct relation to the darkness with which your mind's eye is shaded,\
158And you made it that way.\
159And you can choose to change your vision's prismic range today."''
160-->-- '''Rachel Kann''', "I Know This"
161
162->''"Some of you young folks been saying to me, 'Hey, Pops! What you mean, 'What a Wonderful World'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? They ain't so wonderful either!' Well, how about listenin' to old Pops for a minute?\
163Seems to me, it ain't the world that's so bad, but [[HumansAreFlawed what we're doing to it]]. And all I'm saying is, "See what a wonderful world it would be, if only we'd give it a chance." Love, baby, love: [[ThePowerOfLove That's the secret.]] Yeeaahhh! If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And, man, this world would be a gasser! That's why old Pops keeps saying,"''
164-->''"I see trees of green..."''
165-->-- '''Music/LouisArmstrong''', [[PatrickStewartSpeech spoken-word preface]] to his obscure ''second'' recording of "What a Wonderful World"
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167
168[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
169->''"I wanna dedicate this area to some personal friends of mine - [[MadScientist the Sons and Daughters of Ether]]. Oh, sure, some of you probably dismiss them because they seem silly: while most of us stay wrapped in some Gothic pity-party, the Etherites fly around in [[CoolAirship impossible ships]], strap themselves into Victorian [[MagiTek wonder machines]], smoke silly pipes and generally make a mockery of all that is sullen and serious.\
170That's why I like them so much.\
171There's nothing quite as subversive as the refusal of cynicism. When everyone around you is dressed in black and dripping hostility, what could be more subversive than to dress in bright, bold colours and run headlong with almost suicidally-optimistic abandon? The Ether Folks have this wonderfully skewed vision - one part [[RaygunGothic future]], two parts [[SteamPunk past]] and one part [[CrazyIsCool totally demented]] - that I have no choice but to admire. Anyone who can make a toaster grow wings, fly, and play Beethoven's Fifth is a man or woman worth respecting."''
172-->-- ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension -- The Technomancer's Toolbox''
173[[/folder]]
174
175[[folder:Theater]]
176->''"But all I know is nothing happens if you just give in\
177It can't be any worse than how it's been\
178And it just so happens that we just might win\
179So whatever happens, let's begin!"''
180-->-- '''Watch What Happens''' From ''{{Theatre/Newsies}}''
181
182->'''Davey:''' Tell me how quitting does Crutchie any good?"\
183'''Jack:''' Dszahdh...\
184'''Davey:''' Exactly!
185-->-- '''Watch What Happens (Reprise)''' From ''{{Theatre/Newsies}}''
186
187->'''Adam''': That bloody frog was right all along.\
188'''Jerry''': About what?\
189'''Adam''': About my music, about art. Life is already so dark, if you've got the talent to make it brighter, give people joy and hope, why would you withhold that? Oh my God...It's gotta be a celebration. This whole ballet, it...Goddammit, I hate it when French people are right!
190-->--''Theatre/AnAmericanInParis''
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192
193[[folder:Video Games]]
194->'''[[TheIdealist Lloyd]]:''' I want a world where everyone can have a normal life. I'm tired of people having to become sacrifices. I'm tired of discrimination. I'm tired of people becoming victims. I'm tired of it all.\
195'''Tiga:''' You are an idealist. The worlds of Tethe'alla and Sylvarant flourish only by victimizing the others. So long as that structure remains the same, anything you say is mere sophistry.\
196'''Lloyd:''' Then we need to change that structure! This world was made by that Yggdrasill guy, right?! If a human or elf built this, then we should be able to change it as well!
197-->-- ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''
198
199->''Courage that is untempered by kindness risks eating itself forever...''\
200''...Wisdom that is untempered by kindness is no wisdom at all.''
201-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Tunic}}''
202
203->'''Pit:''' Why are you all doom and gloom all the time, Pittoo?\
204'''Dark Pit:''' I think a better question is why are ''you'' so annoyingly cheerful?\
205'''Pit:''' I'm not annoying. I'm positive!\
206'''Palutena:''' ''(singing)'' You gotta stay upbeat, upbeat, upbeat...\
207'''Pit:''' ''(singing)'' Or you'll be dead meat, dead meat, dead meat...\
208'''Dark Pit:''' Like I said. Annoying.
209-->-- ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising''
210
211->'''Bigby:''' "[[Literature/ThePrince It is better to be feared than loved.]]" Know [[Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli who said that]]?\
212'''Colin:''' Yeah, some sad asshole. Eating alone.
213-->-- ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs''
214
215->'''Leliana:''' "Butler’s betrayal put our agents in danger. I condemn one man to save dozens. I may not like what I do, but it must be done. I cannot afford the luxury of ideals at a time like this!"\
216'''Herald:''' "Now is precisely the time for ideals!"
217-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', if you take steps to soften Leliana.
218
219->''"[[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed All of this happened]] because of fanatics and arguments about the next world. It's time we start believing in this one."''
220-->-- '''[[PlayerCharacter The Inquisitor]]''', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''
221
222->''"The heavy heart is all too eager to embrace wounding lies. Truth may hurt, but what hurts is not always true."''
223-->-- '''[[OldMaster Teshin]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}''
224
225->'''Glitterbeard:''' ''Stories.'' Tall tales and big names, lad - don't let them fool you. Elminster the archmage. [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Drizzt the drow exile.]] Heroes have power, aye - but not half so much as we do. [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney A little coin into the right purse.]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections A soft word in the right ear.]] It's not glory that spins these planes, lad - it's gold. See? Now-
226->''(The mimic starts to shake, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome before Minsc's arm punches out and starts ripping it open to free himself]].)''
227->'''Glitterbeard:''' [[OhCrap Moradin's cracked clay...!]]
228-->-- ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII''
229[[/folder]]
230
231[[folder:Web Animation]]
232->''"'Humans are monsters and everything is awful' has been done to death and is demonstrably untrue. We have enough angry sixth-grade poetry, guys, we can stop writing 'people are all terrible' stories now."''
233-->-- Red, '''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions''', ''Trope Talk: Post Apocalypses''
234
235->''"This ties into the general idea that optimism is naïve, something you're supposed to grow out of, and pessimism is real, the state you grow up into; [[BaitAndSwitch and that's a load of hooey]]. Yeah, I said it! What are you going to do, be sad at me about it?"''
236-->-- Red, '''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions''', ''Trope Talk: Grimdark''
237
238-> '''[[EvilOverlord Asdrubael Vect]]''': NO! NOOOOO! [[StrawNihilist LIFE has no MEANING! Not really]]. [[ImmortalityImmorality Regardless of how long we extend our lifespans]], regardless of our emotions, thoughts and memories, regardless of everything that defines life to us, amalgams of matter who can reflect on it, [[CessationOfExistence the universe itself shall dissipate, and as it does, so shall WE]]. In a million cycles, in a billion cycles, in a duodecillion cycles, in the dying throes of the galaxy, what will you find?!\
239'''[[LightIsGood The Star Child]]''': What? You haven't planned that far ahead yet? (chuckle)\
240'''Asdrubael Vect''': Grrggh... (inhale) Mockery... FATHERLY MOCKERY... You Dare?! My fury is... is... RESTRAINED? [[LaughingMad :DDDD]] Urien! Not even existential dread will work!\
241'''[[MadDoctor Urien Rakarth]]''': (slight crying) No respect for the art of cynicism.
242-->-- '''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice''', ''Episode 29: Bad Jokes, Dad Jokes''
243
244->''"[[ShutUpHannibal I don't care what you say!]] We'' will ''stop them, and I'' will ''stop you! BET ON THAT!"''
245-->-- '''[[TheHero Ruby Rose]]''', to [[TheDragon Roman Torchwick]], ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''
246
247->''"I know your type. [[StrawNihilist The nihilist know-it-all]]. But through all this wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey rubbish, there's one thing you never quite understood. I'm the Doctor. And I don't wanna go."''
248-->-- '''[[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]]''' to [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick Sanchez]], ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''
249[[/folder]]
250
251[[folder:Web Comics]]
252->'''Sal:''' See? Just like before, you're programmed to go psycho at any provocation.\
253'''Joyce:''' No. Now I've grown up. Now I'm comfortable with everything about myself, down to the darkest cave. I'm not afraid of my emotions anymore.\
254'''Sal:''' [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids You're nothing but a naive, pathetic little girl]].\
255'''Joyce:''' ''You're'' the little girl, Sal.\
256'''Sal:''' How '''dare'''--\
257'''Joyce:''' I don't know how to explain... it's like there was this voice. Inside me... it told me you're better than me. Once upon a time, you might have been. [[CharacterDevelopment But you never changed -- I have]].
258-->-- ''[[Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky It's Walky]]''
259[[/folder]]
260
261[[folder:Web Original]]
262->''"We all know the world is full of chance and anarchy,\
263[[TruthInTelevision So, yes, it's true to life for characters to die randomly,]]\
264But news flash: the genre's called fantasy!\
265[[JustifiedTrope It's meant to be unrealistic,]] you myopic manatee!"''
266-->-- '''[[Creator/JRRTolkien J.R.R. Tolkien]]''' to Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'', "J.R.R. Tolkien vs George R.R. Martin"
267
268->''"I have previously stated my attraction to the idea of keeping one’s politics childish... no matter how many jaded adults remind you that [[LifeIsntFair nobody ever said life was fair]]. Because, you see, that’s a lie. They did. They did tell us that life was fair. Repeatedly. They still do. Every day. On TV, in films, in books, in newspapers -- they tell us that life is fair over and over again, in happy ending after happy ending, in fictional moral victory upon fictional moral victory, in reassuring news story after reassuring news story, in editorial after thinkpiece after review. It’s only when we express anger at injustice that we are dishonestly told that justice is an unreasonable expectation."''
269-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-zygon-invocation/ Jack Graham]]'''
270
271->''"Defeatism is fool-proof. You can't control a positive outcome, but you can ensure a negative one simply by giving up and surrendering. Thus the ego is protected...Just as the skeptics and debunkers were seen as passe and old-fashioned by the Nu Atheists, so to will the atheists be seen by the inevitable rise of the Nihilist, the terminus of the culture of defeat."''
272-->-- '''[[http://secretsunjr.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-culture-of-surrender-or-cheeto.html Christopher Loring Knowles]]'''
273
274->''"The Saward era, if only in hindsight, is almost overtly an attempt to figure out what ''Doctor Who'' should be like in the wake of [[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar the Falklands]] and [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher]]. It gets it dreadfully wrong much of the time, however. In part this is because it concedes the point and tries to be ''Doctor Who'' in a Thatcherite world. Whereas here Bidmead just won’t have it. He starts in a world of [[HobbesWasRight militaristic institutions holding back the tide of chaos]], then has the Doctor just kick the premise to the curb and change the world into one in which good old-fashioned 'tear down the structures of society and leave smart, good people behind to rebuild it' is the order of the universe once again.\
275It's a small thing... But it’s significant -- a spiritual escape act. Instead of bending towards Thatcherite hell the universe now takes a last minute swerve into rebirth."''
276-->-- '''Dr. El Sandifer''' [[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-grounds-attacking-us-frontios/ on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS21E3Frontios}} "Frontios"]])
277
278->''"Optimism is believing that going out in the world and doing things is worthwhile. It’s the cynics who stay home and do nothing. This is why the most cynical hipsters among us are also the most unemployed. This is why I’ve grown to find cynicism so frustrating — cynicism doesn’t cause inaction. The desire for inaction causes cynicism. And so you fight to defend your cynicism tooth and nail."''
279-->-- '''Jason Pargin''' aka "David Wong"
280
281->''"If someone gave one of these people a cake, their first response would probably be to call the bomb squad."''
282-->-- '''''Rational Wiki''''' on Libertarians
283
284->''"{{Crapsack world}}s and {{anti hero}}es have their place. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Sometimes, they are very necessary]]. But [[TooBleakStoppedCaring an endless diet of dreary cyberpunk and dark fantasy won't do us any more favors]] than an endless feast of {{glurge}}. I'd argue that the cynical nature of these really hurt our ability to hope and work for better. It gets us to [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror accept the hopelessness and jaded outlook of things as 'That's the way it is. I can't change it]],' and stops us from fighting when [[EarnYourHappyEnding we NEED to fight]]."''
285-->-- ''[[http://www.postudios.com/blog/forum/index.php?topic=9190.msg291765#msg291765 A poster on the forums]] for VideoGame/TheSilverLining''
286
287->''"Blind cynicism will make friends look like enemies"''.
288-->-- ''[[https://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/186664626898 A poster on Tumblr]].
289
290->''"Movements need hope. They need optimism. If all that fuels you is your anger and frustration and pessimism, it is going to hollow out your soul. And if things ever do get better, you might not know what to do with yourself in that world"''.
291-->-- ''[[https://sirfrogsworth.tumblr.com/post/639550548706738176/this-is-a-funny-tweet-but-i-disliked-it-i A poster on Tumblr]].
292
293->''"Um, no.\
294It just means that among your bag of intellectual tools for writing and logic all you own are hammers and feel that you deserve as much acclaim for your efforts as someone who has taken the time to learn the full breadth of what all aspects of writing can achieve.\
295'There's a reason why [[Creator/AndrewDiceClay andrew Dice Clay]] [sic] had a short but booming career; he was a tone-deaf asshole.\
296And there's a reason why his career ended; he was a tone-deaf asshole.\
297There's a reason why Creator/RobinWilliams had a long and prestigious career in multiple media's and left a vacuum in the fields he worked in; he wasn't a tone-deaf asshole. He could write, he could act, he had a great sense of the human condition that spanned generations and could put it all together in one place."''
298-->-- ''Website/{{Fark}}'', [[http://www.fark.com/comments/9253262/104240806#c104240806 rebutting the claim "If you're not offending someone you're doing it wrong."]]
299
300->'''Pollo:''' Perhaps. But why have you not left yet, then? The scout ship stands ready. You can enter and leave all of us here, and no one will think less of you for it.\
301'''WebVideo/MarzGurl:''' Because my friends are in trouble, and they need my help. When people need my help, I’m going to be there for them.\
302'''Pollo:''' Of course you are. Because despite our unique circumstances, the things that we encounter are not oddities. They are not interruptions. We all have our own storylines - each of us the protagonist in our own tale. If it was not Mechakara that we encountered, your life would eventually be ‘interrupted’, as you say, by something else. A loved one in need elsewhere, an obstacle appearing along the way, or an enemy in a different form would disrupt your existence. You will always encounter people who won’t like you, who use you, who don’t appreciate what you’re trying to do with yourself, and sometimes they will defeat you. But most of the time, you overcome them. This is just another chapter of our lives - a weird dangerous, and unhappy one, but turn the page. The story does not end with us, but together, we’ll make it to a happy ending.\
303'''[=MarzGurl:=]''' You know, I never took you to be an optimist.\
304'''Pollo:''' On the contrary - I’m a realist. It’s just reality is not usually as bad as it is so often perceived to be.
305-->-- ''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Atop The Fourth Wall: The Movie]]''
306
307->''"I think I hate this comic more than any other I've ever reviewed, because it is the complete antithesis of everything I believe in. Holy Terror says that you should be unkind, it says you shouldn't trust people, it says compassion will be repaid with violence, and that violence can only be answered with more violence, and that violence is strength. That hurting others is not only enjoyable and desirable, but that it should be employed first when dealing with threats. It says that if you have power, you should lord that power over others and do harm to them. It says that revenge is a worthy cause. It treats women as either victims or enemies, and don't assume Natalie Stack is immune to this criticism, trust me, the book ain't over yet. It tells us we should fear the other, the foreigner, the dark-skinned, the religion that's not your own. And you know what the damndest thing of all is? I am honest to God afraid of terrorism. Terrorism is real. There are people out there who want to kill me either because I'm from a different country or just because they're some angry misanthrope with a gun. That applies to both foreign and domestic terrorists. Terrorism is about making someone so afraid that they'll do what you tell them to. And the grand message of Frank Miller's Holy Terror is: Be afraid. Be terrified. And let's give in to that fear. And embrace every dark, sick and inhuman part of our souls as a result, and do everything to them that they will do to us. Frank... you must be so proud."''
308-->--'''Linkara''' explaining his hatred of Creator/FrankMiller's ''ComicBook/HolyTerror'', ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''
309
310-> ''"There’s nothing wrong with hope. There’s nothing wrong with optimism. Depressing people is easy. People are naturally pessimistic (we’d scarcely have survived this long if we always expected everything to be fine) and we’re uniquely receptive to anyone who’ll tell us that everything is fucked. One of the hardest things in art is to create something beautiful and uplifting."''
311-->-- '''Blog/UnshavedMouse''', review of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound''
312
313->''"Depression is a disease, make no mistake. [[Creator/LarsVonTrier Von Trier]] can romanticize it all he wants, but it's a stasis. A dead end. Succumbing to it is to surrender to death. And he can go on and on about how hollow our culture is and how shallow life is, but what of it? I'm alive, and I can experience the new, and share it. Here, now, I'm alive, and what happier thing can be said?"''
314-->-- '''Kyle Kallgren''', ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh''
315
316->''"But [Tempest] is a great contrast against [[TheHero Twilight]]: Someone who suffered a blow and assumes that's the way the world works, which is something we all tend to assume. It's tempting to define the world only by the bad because we think that will prepare ourselves, when really I think it closes ourselves off to possibilities and options, which is why Tempest is in the wrong here. Put simply, I don't trust people who assume they know the way the world works because usually they only understand half of it."''
317-->-- '''WebAnimation/SilverQuill''' on '''[[TheDragon Tempest Shadow]]''' in his ''[[https://youtu.be/WROKf6mueFA?t=7m10s Without Context]]: WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017''
318
319->''"We all want to be the smirking protagonist who can’t be bothered to get passionate or incensed about anything. Responding to all problems with a [='=]''hmph''[='=] as they strut away casually. I’m looking at you, ''all anime ever''. We admire this type of character, ignoring the fact that they’re displaying all the signs of having serious depression. They’re not so much rebels as they are miserable jerks.\
320This narrative is only encouraged by the idea that happy people are either ignorant, deluded, or just plain faking it. Cynics love to paint happiness as a two-dimensional facade, something disingenuous that should be avoided. And those who are genuinely happy are simply conforming to societal pressure. This is pretty hypocritical, as cynics themselves are often unwittingly conforming to the cool character type."''
321-->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''', [[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Nerd_Rage_Is_Bad_for_Your_Brain.aspx "Nerd Rage is Bad For Your Health"]]
322
323->''"Idiocy usually comes from lack of data or experience. She still doesn't have enough. She hadn't addressed that core issue, so she's still an idiot. (...) She keeps losing and losing and losing. She did not handle *any* of her original goals. A [[JerkassFacade persona]] was not an answer."''
324-->-- An [[https://telegra.ph/Retracing-Iceguya-04-08 analysis]] of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', explaining why Kaguya's attempt to retreat into her "Ice" persona was immature
325
326->''"Jaded sarcasm isn't brave in 2020. It's the path of least resistance for edgy chan-lords. It does not imply a deep and abiding morality."''
327-->-- ''Innuendo Studios'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSLPcp4C18 CO-VIDs: the 90's neoliberal fantasia as experienced by daria morgendorffer, millennial]]"
328
329->''"This is why I adore old school superhero cartoons made for kids, and why I think children’s animation, as long as it has the “that everyone can enjoy” caveat, is the best way to experience the superhero genre. These shows are just so sincere about liking what they are, they don’t need to justify it by adding snark, meta mockery of the genre or sexual titillation to make the audience feel more grown up and smarter than everybody else."''
330-->-- Blogger '''[[https://ilikekidsshows.tumblr.com/post/642299013753962497/what-is-it-with-western-cartoons-needing-to-have-a ilikekidsshows]]''', about ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug''
331
332->''"What's wrong with a lullaby? What's wrong with happy endings? Are they really all unrealistic or does it depend on the amount of hope in your heart? Your philosophy on life?"''
333-->-- Reviewer '''Frog''' on ''[[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1759704005?book_show_action=true Epic Pooh]]''
334
335->'''Jason:''' Come on, you guys. All this negativity is just gonna make things WORSE.
336->'''James:''' No. Standing on an ice sheet for half our lives is gonna make things worse! Right?
337->'''Everyone:''' YEAH!
338->'''Jason:''' No, no, no, no, no. Everybody listen up! OKAY? Our happiness or our misery depends not on our circumstances, but on our disposition. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WE. CHOOSE. OUR. ADDITUDE!]]
339-->-- ''Series/StudioC'', "The Hard Life Of A Male Penguin"
340
341->''"I could write ninety percent of an essay on how any of these games are [[DarkerAndEdgier 'the darkest']] in [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda their series]], but then you get to the end and… what? 'Isn't it crazy how messed up this is?' It's an empty reading, substanceless. Ironically, it’s juvenile. Being 'messed up' is not a theme. Darkness is not a narrative. Violence on its own is not mature. Every description I’ve given thus far is missing the crucial piece, the 'so what?', the 'why should I care?'... To brand any of these games as the darkest Zelda is to miss the forest for the trees, focus on the storytelling methods without considering what the stories themselves are doing with them. Heroism shines when contrasted with the darkness. Acts of compassion mean more when stakes are high. And this perspective also misses the levity of the stories, and what those moments contribute as well. [[TooBleakStoppedCaring A world without joy and humor isn’t a compelling world to fight for.]] Every one of these games become meaningful through their lightest elements, absurd side characters and silly mini games and the idea of Link not being heavy until he takes the metal boots out of his pocket and puts them on his feet. Zelda games flourish in this twilight, the melding of light and dark. The disparate tones mutually empower each other."''
342-->-- '''WebVideo/JacobGeller''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=O2tXLsEUpaQ "Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda"]]
343[[/folder]]
344
345[[folder:Web Video]]
346->'''Teruko:''' I can tell you're trying to open up to me, but I won't let you. Sorry. You're right. Life is cruel. That's exactly why we should stop trying to bond with each other. That way, it'll hurt less when people die. You most of all, Eden. You're the last person I wanna be friends with.
347->'''Eden:''' Eh? Why?
348->'''Teruko:''' Because...Because you're too kind to me. I've noticed. All this time, when I've been blaming others for turning against me, you've never once brought up the fact that you've stayed by my side the whole time. Anyone else in your place would've brought it up already, to point to the fact that I'm wrong, and to get me to side with them. But you don't.
349->'''Eden:''' Teruko, relationships aren't transactional. It's not that I did something good for you that should you do something good for me. I want you to be my friend, but not because I'm a nice person and you feel obligated to.
350->'''Teruko:''' You're caring, selfless, and worst of all, hopeless naive. When that optimistic worldview of yours gets shattered by the harsh reality of this killing game, I don't want to have an emotional stake in it. Sooner or later that kindness of yours will have you breaking down, until you're too overwhelmed by grief to be able to act. That's not I plan to live. I'll join in on whatever activity you have planned, but I'm only humoring you. We're not going to become friends. I won't let that happen. I'll never trust or rely on anyone else ever again.
351->'''Eden:''' No. You're wrong, Teruko.
352->'''Teruko:''' Wrong? About what?
353->'''Eden:''' There's nothing naive about being optimistic. I'm not nice because I'm dumb or I don't know better. I chose to be this way. Even if the world is cold and cruel, I'll still make the choice to be kind. It's only human to feel grief, and it's only human to rely on others. I truly believe that's how we'll get through this killing game. Through expressing grief, and then relying on one another. So I'll prove you wrong. Kindness isn't weakness. Not caring about others is the worst way to live. One day, I'll make you understand that. Until then, you can call me naive and hopeless all you want. Got it?
354->'''Teruko:''' ...''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial (Somehow, hearing her words made my chest hurt. It's just my injury acting up again. Nothing else.)]]''
355-->-- ''WebVideo/DanganronpaDespairTime''
356
357->"I will take an [[CondescendingCompassion insincere display of charity]] over a genuine display of [[NoSympathy apathy]] every day of the week."
358-->-- ''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows'', "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" review
359[[/folder]]
360
361[[folder:Western Animation]]
362->''"If you look for light, you will often find it. But if you look only for the dark, it is all you will ever see."''
363-->-- '''Iroh''', ''Westernanimation/TheLegendOfKorra''
364
365->'''ComicBook/{{Superman}}:''' What made you change your mind?
366->'''[[ComicBook/DoctorFate Kent Nelson/Doctor Fate]]:''' You.
367->'''Superman:''' Something I said?
368->'''Fate:''' Something you did. [[HeroicResolve You went back. You didn't stand a chance, but you went back.]] [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity Til then, I thought it was only the forces of evil that wouldn't give up. I was wrong.]]
369->'''Superman:''' (''offering him the Helmet of Fate'') Your helmet.
370->'''Fate:''' [[HesBack I'll be needing it.]]
371-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', "The Hand Of Fate"
372[[/folder]]
373
374[[folder:Real Life]]
375->''"Cynicism transforms experience and healthy skepticism into a pernicious prejudice that assumes negative conduct and intentions and damns to failure every effort to make things better. Cynicism is a dark lens that that shapes everything we see and how we feel."''
376-->-- Blog by '''Michael Josephson'''
377
378->''"And if there is any hope for any of us in this giant explosion in which we inhabit then surely that's it: Intellect and romance triumph over brute force and cynicism!"''
379-->-- '''Creator/CraigFerguson'''
380
381->''"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to [[DareToBeBadass live more musically.]]''"
382-->-- '''Creator/VincentVanGogh'''
383
384->''"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and [[StrawNihilist the value of nothing.]]"''
385-->-- '''Creator/OscarWilde'''
386
387->''"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."''
388-->-- '''Creator/HLMencken'''
389
390->''"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."''
391-->-- '''Frank Crane'''
392
393->''"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."''
394-->-- '''Creator/BertrandRussell'''
395
396->''"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."''
397-->-- '''Creator/DrSeuss'''
398
399->''"In a time of dismay and dread, is it admirable for filmmakers to depict pure evil? Have [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11, suicide bombers]], serial killers and kidnappings created a world in which the response of the artist must be nihilistic and hopeless? At the end of your film, after the other characters have been killed in sadistic and gruesome ways, the only survivor is the one who is [[BigBad evil incarnate]], and we hear [[EvilLaugh his cold laughter]] under a screen that has gone dark. Your answer, that the world is evil and therefore it is your responsibility to reflect it, is no answer at all, but a surrender."''
400-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''', to David [=DeFalco=] on his film ''Chaos''.
401
402->''"The next real literary 'rebels' in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles... These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that'll be the point. Maybe that's why they'll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval."''
403-->-- '''Creator/DavidFosterWallace'''
404
405->''"I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface."''
406-->-- '''Randy Pausch''', ''The Last Lecture''
407
408->''"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."''
409-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw''', ''Man and Superman''
410
411->''"I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it`s reflecting life — toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things — and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict."''
412-->-- '''Greer Garson'''
413
414->''"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."''
415-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy'''
416
417->''"The cynics may be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least."''
418-->-- '''UsefulNotes/BarackObama'''
419
420->''"There's nothing weak about being honorable. You're not a sucker to have integrity and treat others with respect."''
421-->-- '''UsefulNotes/BarackObama'''
422
423->''"What we do echoes through generations. Whatever our backgounrds, we are all the children of Americans who fought the good fight. [[TheGildedAge Great grandparents who were working in fire traps and sweatshops without rights or representation. Farmers losing their dreams to dust.]] [[AnImmigrantsTale Irish and Italians and Asians and Latinos told, 'Go back to where you come from.' Jews and Catholics, Muslims and Sikhs, made to feel suspect for the way they worshipped.]] [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement Black Americans chained and whipped and hanged, spit on for trying to sit at lunch counters. Beaten for trying to vote.]] If anyone had a right to believe that this democracy did not work and could not work, it was those Americans. Our ancestors. They were on the receiving end of a democracy that had fallen short all their lives. They knew how far the daily reality of America strayed from the myth, and yet instead of giving up, [[{{Determinator}} they joined together and they said, 'Somehow, some way, we are going to make this work. We are going to bring those words in our founding documents to life.']]"''
424-->-- '''UsefulNotes/BarackObama'''
425
426->''"There are times where I feel discouraged. There are times where the future seems somewhat bleak ... and images of dystopia start creeping into my dreams. Whenever I feel such despondency, I remind myself that cynicism is the recourse of cowards."''
427-->-- '''UsefulNotes/BarackObama'''
428
429->''"We've seen tough times in this country. You know we've gone through depressions and wars and bombings and terrorist attacks, and we've gone through Jim Crow, and we've always come out stronger. And that's what we have to continue to believe because what's our choice? To ball up in a corner and call it a day? Well that's not fair to this next generation that's coming before us that are counting on us to get this right."''
430-->-- '''Michelle Obama'''
431
432->''"Don't tell me things can't change."''
433-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JoeBiden'''
434
435->''"I choose the discipline of hope over the ease of cynicism.\
436I choose fortitude over fatalism.\
437I choose to be who my ancestors protected and my creator formed.\
438I choose strategy and organizing as the container for my anger.\
439I choose to be more than a conqueror."''
440-->-- '''Brittany Packnett'''
441
442->''"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so."''
443-->-- '''Noam Chomsky'''
444
445->''"Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes."''
446-->-- '''Creator/StephenColbert'''
447
448->''"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."''
449-->-- '''Peggy Noonan''', ''Good Housekeeping''
450
451->"''Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer."''
452-->-- '''[[Music/{{Jewel}} Jewel Kilcher]]'''
453
454->''"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in the darkness and blind to the light, always pursuing vermin and never hunting noble game."''
455-->-- '''Henry Ward Beecher'''
456
457->''"Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions."''
458-->-- '''Theodor Herzl'''
459
460->''"Cynicism isn't cool, smart or sexy, its just laziness with an edgy makeover. It's your egos way of tricking you into thinking that apathy is heroic. It's not. The worst forces in the world are praying for your cynicism. You want to fix something?\
461✨Concern + Effort + Creativity✨"''
462-->-- '''Creator/AlexHirsch'''
463
464->People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
465->''Love them anyway.''
466
467->If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
468->''Do good anyway.''
469
470->If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
471->''Succeed anyway.''
472
473->The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
474->''Do good anyway.''
475
476->Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
477->''Be honest and frank anyway.''
478
479->The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
480->''Think big anyway.''
481
482->People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
483->''Fight for a few underdogs anyway.''
484
485->What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
486->''Build anyway.''
487
488->People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
489->''Help people anyway.''
490
491->Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
492->''Give the world the best you have anyway.''
493-->-- '''Dr. Kent M. Keith''', ''Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments'' (often misattributed to Mother Teresa)
494
495->''"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness... What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction... And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."''
496-->-- '''Howard Zinn'''
497
498-> ''"Funny story, I watched ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'' recently and I didn't get the hype at first. It's not a bad show, it's actually pretty good, but I had no idea why people fell in love with the thing. People told me without irony that it is one of the best things that Adult Swim has ever put on the air. That is a tall order. And then it clicked; Smiling. Friends. The show is about characters trying to make others happy and it doesn't end with the characters learning again and again that it's a pointless endeavor. Every happy ending isn't subverted with pain and suffering, they actually end episodes with people being happy and not every punchline is misery and suffering. Like, it's the first show in a very long time whose message doesn't begin and end that life sucks and then you die. We need more of this; four, five, six seasons-one hundred episodes, Morty! O-one hundred episodes of trying to make people smile!" ''
499-->-- '''WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter'''
500
501->''"WE ARE NOT "BORN TO DIE". DOES A BOOK BEGIN JUST TO FINISH? DOES A SONG OPEN WITH A BEAUTIFUL CHORD PURELY TO END?"''
502
503->''"YES. WE ARE BORN WITH THE INEVITABLE FATE OF DEATH. BUT THAT IS MERELY THE FINAL ACT OF THE PLAY. WE ARE BORN TO LOVE, BE JOYOUS, TO MOVE, LEARN, CRY, AND FEEL. WE ARE, IN FACT, BORN TO LIVE."''
504-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLp9SiLYvM Vanegood]]'''
505[[/folder]]

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