Hannibal Quotes

Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.

A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

I think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.