Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"Humor heals the wounded heart."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"We laugh at the follies of others, blind to our own."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Laughter is the balm that heals the wounded spirit."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The humor in life comes from the gap between expectation and reality."
Boris Pasternak
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"Humor is the most honest form of truth-telling."
Maxim Gorky
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"Humor is the shield of the wise against despair."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"I've never believed that the point of opening your mouth is to breathe."
Anton Chekhov
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"What do doctors know? Nothing."
Anton Chekhov
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"One should never put on one's best trousers when one goes out to fight for freedom and truth."
Anton Chekhov
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"Comedy and tragedy are but two masks worn by the same face."
Nikolai Gogol
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"We laugh at what we do not understand."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Laughter is the defense of those who have no other weapon."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Humor is a way of acknowledging life's absurdities without surrendering to them."
Maxim Gorky
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"Laughter is a form of rebellion against the sorrows of existence."
Maxim Gorky
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"Humor is wisdom wearing a mask of lightness."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Humor is the intelligent person's shield against despair."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Humor is the mask of the wounded."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Laughter is the universal language of human dignity."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Laughter in the face of despair is the ultimate act of defiance."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Humor allows us to acknowledge truths too painful to speak directly."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving grace of our existence."
Anton Chekhov
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"Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."
Anton Chekhov
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"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
Anton Chekhov
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."
Samuel Beckett
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"In the end, everything is a gag."
Leo Tolstoy
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"I have a plan—to go mad."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Humor is the mask of seriousness."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The best jokes are those that wound just enough to teach."
Mikhail Lermontov
"I have never understood the modern sense of humour."
Samuel Beckett
"God and all the angels testiculate backwards."
Samuel Beckett