Elie Wiesel Quotes

When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter what level it is, we all use it every day, no matter what situation we're in, we'll try and have a bit of a laugh even if it goes wrong.

To laugh is proper to man.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

If you can laugh with your friends over something, you own it.

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

I go through my comments sometimes, and I'll just take snapshots of the terrible ones and send them to my friends. I know it's horrible, but they actually make me laugh. They make my day.

Everybody laughs all the time, and some of the worst things that happen make you laugh 'cause it's a defense isn't it, I suppose.

I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.

As a species, we would not have survived without humor.

Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is capable of laughing. Laughter is the only distinguishing mark that you are not a buffalo, you are not a donkey; you are a human being. Laughter defines your humanity and your evolution. And the greatest laugh is at your own ridiculous things.

A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?