And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
Alan Thicke

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
Robert Teeter

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

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Mason Cooley

Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith

Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Norman Cousins

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
Shawn Colvin

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
Edward Dowden

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
Mason Cooley

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.
Chloe Sevigny

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.
Donald Sutherland

I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.
Joe Dante

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
Patricia Ireland

I have no cynicism at all.
Antony Sher

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
Carl Barks

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.
Graham Coxon

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
Reinhold Niebuhr