Jaded Quotes:

Most people probably become more jaded the longer they work in the world of work.

- David Livermore

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: People, World, Jaded

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.

- John Darnielle

source: "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

topic: Feelings, My Friends, Jaded

People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

- John Darnielle

source: "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

topic: Fun, People, Jaded

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.

- Germaine Greer

source: Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.57, Atlantic Monthly Press

topic: Treatment, Jaded, Sensibility

I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.

- Maurice Sendak

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Enjoyed, Jaded, Has Beens

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.

- Peter McWilliams

topic: Hate, Believe, Cynical, Darker Side, Jaded

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

- Ally Carter

topic: Wise, Young, Jaded

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

- Gerard Way

topic: Suicide, Suicidal, Moments, Jaded, Mcr

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

- Sandra Bernhard

topic: Cynicism, Jaded

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Children, News, Demand, Jaded

The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.

- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

source: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2002). “The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart”, p.114, Ballantine Books

topic: Cat, Curiosity, Would Be, Paper Bags, Jaded

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

- Herb Alpert

source: Twitter post from Feb 20, 2013

topic: Nice, Feelings, Littles, Jaded

I don't know how exactly but I'm maybe perverse in the sense that I like being disappointed in something on a daily basis. Because it means that I'm still not jaded.

- Rose McGowan

source: "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Mean, Being Disappointed, Bases, Jaded

And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.

- Veena Sud

topic: Powerful, Interesting, Cynical, Jaded, Sacred Things

Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. I have a reverence for individuality. I've always considered myself too individualistic to be either right-wing or left-wing. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. People should be able to be what they want to be and do what they want - as long as they're not harming other people. I am a libertarian.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Country, Views, Wings, Individualistic, Vigilant

An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner.

- Alberto Villoldo

topic: Uplifting, Dream, Optimism, Jaded

Only--but this is rare-- When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafen'd ear Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd-- A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of his life's flow, And hears its winding murmur; and he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.

- Matthew Arnold

topic: Lying, Heart, Mean, Glare, Jaded

I've been at stand-up 26 years now: After a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

- Emo Philips

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Years, Gynecologists, Patient, Jaded

All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.

- Jonah Hill

topic: Fun, Kids, Games, Jaded, Cool Things

Wonder is very necessary in life. When we're little kids, we're filled with wonder for the world - it's fascinating and miraculous. A lot of people lose that. They become cynical and jaded, especially in modern day society. Magic renews that wonder.

- Doug Henning

topic: Kids, People, Cynical, Jaded

'Salad Days' refers to a youthful or innocent period. And a lot of people having been asking me already so you jaded? And I'm not, I'm 23. It's me reflecting, I had to re-learn to have fun with music and I had to re-count my blessings.

- Mac DeMarco

topic: Fun, Blessing, People, Jaded

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

- Adora Svitak

topic: Kids, Giving, Cynical, Jaded

Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none.

- Hugh Hefner

topic: Power, Wake Up, Realizing, Jaded

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Rain, Fall, Dark, Jaded

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: People, Drink, Pleasure, Food And Drink, Jaded

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

- Robert Genn

topic: Art, Enthusiastic, Profession, Jaded

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: Ideas, Mind, Adults, Prodigious, Jaded

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

- Kelli O'Hara

topic: Beautiful, Sarcastic, Reason Why, Jaded

I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

- Rupert Friend

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tired, Thinking, Artist, Jaded

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

topic: Fashion, Lonely, New York, Jaded

This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, Speed Racer is an excess of nothingness.

- Stephanie Zacharek

source: "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.

topic: Fun, Excess, Littles, Speed Racer, Crass

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

- Ed Helms

topic: Cynical, Persons, Jaded

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

topic: School, Magic, World, Too Cool, Jaded

I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. I also never forgot something Johnny Depp said to me, which Marlon Brando said to him, 'You only have so many faces in your pocket.' I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

- Rupert Friend

topic: Tired, Thinking, Artist, Many Faces, Jaded

Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Stars, Night, Years, Nocturnal, Dwellers

I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things off. I have totally emotional days when I cry and get insecure. PMS weirded out, doomed and tragic. I mean, I'm definitely not just a lollipop, happy in the wind girl. I'm human just like everyone else, but I think that it would be tragic to be on your deathbed and think, 'I could've I should've.' That gets me out of bed everyday. I can't even last like an hour in bed in the morning. I have to get out there and live.

- Drew Barrymore

topic: Girl, Morning, Mean, Lollipop, Jaded

I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead.

- Lola Kirke

topic: New York, Moving, Eye, New Eyes, Jaded

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.

- Regis Philbin

topic: Party, Thinking, Matter, Jaded

There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.702, Delphi Classics

topic: Forgiveness, War, Eye, Jaded

As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.

- Robert Genn

topic: Motivation, Attitude, Block, Lackadaisical, Poor Quality

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

- Terry Brooks

source: Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.9, Del Rey

topic: Believe, Thinking, Lucky, Lucky You, Uphill Climbs

To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Self, Soul, Mind, Jaded

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

- Ang Lee

topic: People, Giving, Chance, Give It A Chance, Jaded

But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.254, Penguin

topic: Heart, Doors, Yellow, Jaded

What Strider thinks of himself "He was too intense, too jaded, too warped and too...everything for most women to take for long. But so what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway.

- Gena Showalter

source: Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.83, HQN Books

topic: Smart, Thinking, Long, Strider, Jaded

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

- Annie Lennox

topic: Thinking, People, Sometimes, Jaded

I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed.

- Hedi Slimane

topic: Fashion, Emotional, Esoteric, Catwalk, Liturgy

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Stars, Night, Light, Twinkling, Nocturnal

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.

- Neil Gaiman

source: Neil Gaiman (2002). “Adventures in the Dream Trade”, N E S F A Press

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Reading Fiction, Jaded

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Growing Up, Thinking, Bitter, Jaded

Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted.

- Carrie Underwood

topic: Morning, Night, Color, Every Morning, Jaded

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

- Bruce Campbell

source: Bruce Campbell (2015). “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor”, p.317, Macmillan

topic: Children, Past, Reality, Jaded

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

- Robert Plant

topic: Facts, Fart, Bunch, Old Farts, Jaded