Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.