Humorous Perspective Quotes

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

There's no such thing as a wardrobe malfunction - only a wardrobe opportunity.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

There's a lot of comedy in being the outsider. You can say, 'That's weird. Why do you do it that way? That's foreign to me. That's pretty weird.'