Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise we're going down the tube.

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

I try to laugh at whatever life brings.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

As long as you can laugh at you, it won't bother you when others laugh at you.

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.