Humor Quotes

Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.

21194 quotes

"Humor is tragedy plus time."
Cormac McCarthy
"Humor heals the wounded heart."
Cormac McCarthy
"Humor is humanity's greatest gift."
Cormac McCarthy
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"Humor often masks profound truths; laughter can be a form of resistance and survival."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"I swear by the good Lord above, if I have to spend one more day listening to that Finch woman prattle on."
Harper Lee
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"The most boring letter in the alphabet: the one you're waiting for."
Harper Lee
"Laughter is medicine for the weary soul"
Robertson Davies
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"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My answer is always the same: 'they don't stifle enough of them.'"
Flannery O'Connor
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"There is someone in every class who wants to argue with you about every statement you make."
Flannery O'Connor
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"The South is full of what unlettered people think of as grotesque and I am one of them myself."
Flannery O'Connor
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"There are some people who would be offended by virtue itself."
Flannery O'Connor
"Humor is a way of coping with the unbearable. It's a necessity, not a luxury."
Cormac McCarthy
"Humor is the only honest response to absurdity."
Cormac McCarthy
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"Humor is often the only honest response to absurdity."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"The most boring thing in the world, I believe, is a twelve-year-old girl."
Harper Lee
"I am in fact a Marxist, but of the Groucho variety."
David Foster Wallace
"I do things like get in a taxi and say, the library, and somehow the driver knows that I mean the British Library."
David Foster Wallace
"Most people will install lasers in their files instead of reading them."
David Foster Wallace
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"You never have to change anything you got drunk and said."
Saul Bellow
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"Human life is far too important to be taken seriously."
Saul Bellow
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"If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me."
Saul Bellow
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"Keep your sense of the absurd."
Saul Bellow
"Humor is the last refuge of those who see too much."
Cormac McCarthy
"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."
Philip Roth
"Everybody else is even more f***ed up than you are."
Philip Roth
"I am an ironist, and ironists are the ones who give you the feelings you do not want."
Philip Roth
"You are not going to win the Nobel Prize in Literature."
Philip Roth
"The problem with most people is they think."
Philip Roth
"Most people are not as interesting as they think they are."
Philip Roth
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"The Misfit said that the grandmother reminded him of a chicken."
Flannery O'Connor