Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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