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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!